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Government blogs and government bloggers


Government digital blogging has sharply decreased, and entire blogs are moribund. That prompts three questions: what’s actually happened, does it matter – and is the data carrying a slightly different message?

Relentlessness


Relentlessness is a necessity and a strength in making change happen. A day at Govcamp is a powerful demonstration of relentlessness in action.

In the service of civility


Civil servants have a professional obligation to implement the policies of democratically elected governments, and take professional pride in doing so. But they are allowed – and more than allowed, required – to have a conscience and to exercise it

Government blogs and government bloggers

Stefan Czerniawski — 15 February 201821 February 2018

Government digital blogging has sharply decreased, and entire blogs are moribund. That prompts three questions: what’s actually happened, does it matter – and is the data carrying a slightly different message?

Relentlessness

Stefan Czerniawski — 21 January 201822 January 2018

Relentlessness is a necessity and a strength in making change happen. A day at Govcamp is a powerful demonstration of relentlessness in action.

Law, code and systems

Stefan Czerniawski — 17 November 201717 November 2017

Should law which results in the creation of new public administrative systems receive different parliamentary scrutiny from law which doesn’t?

Strategic writing, strategic reading

Stefan Czerniawski — 19 June 201715 February 2018

Things have been a bit quiet round here for a while. The list of posts which have been started continues to lengthen. The list of posts which have been finished and published remains rather stuck.

Postcard from a camping trip

Stefan Czerniawski — 21 January 201722 January 2018

Govcamp is still useless. That’s still its superpower.

In the service of civility

Stefan Czerniawski — 21 December 20166 January 2018

Civil servants have a professional obligation to implement the policies of democratically elected governments, and take professional pride in doing so. But they are allowed – and more than allowed, required – to have a conscience and to exercise it

Customising language

Stefan Czerniawski — 12 December 201621 December 2016

Customers, users or citizens? The debate goes quiet from time to time but never really dies. Words matter. We should make careful choices. But those choices don’t need to be binary. And we don’t need an unambiguous resolution.

Interesting elsewhere – 2 December 2016

Stefan Czerniawski — 2 December 201611 December 2016

Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web

Interesting elsewhere – 16 September 2016

Stefan Czerniawski — 16 September 201616 September 2016

Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web

Extrapolating the future

Stefan Czerniawski — 12 September 201612 December 2016

It’s easy to think that the future has run out of surprises, but there is little sign that it has. People have been predicting better predictions over the thousands of years since the prediction business got underway. Simple extrapolation is rarely the smartest move.

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