Comments on: Are you watching, COI? http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/are-you-watching-coi/ The former home of Simon's blog on news, politics and e-government. Now at puffbox.com. Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:28:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dale’s Criticism of British Government’s Blog Monitoring Unit Off-Base at notes from across the pond http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/are-you-watching-coi/#comment-21758 Dale’s Criticism of British Government’s Blog Monitoring Unit Off-Base at notes from across the pond Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:14:07 +0000 http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/are-you-watching-coi/#comment-21758 [...] advocate, architect and blogger, Simon Dickson, follows up: What’s the alternative - ignore the blogosphere? How often do I read posts complaining that the [...] [...] advocate, architect and blogger, Simon Dickson, follows up: What’s the alternative – ignore the blogosphere? How often do I read posts complaining that the [...]

]]> By: Colin McKay http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/are-you-watching-coi/#comment-21740 Colin McKay Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:30:15 +0000 http://simondickson.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/are-you-watching-coi/#comment-21740 "The blog monitoring would need a sufficient number of individual government departments to agree to cover the extra costs involved. If this happened, MMU estimates a service could operate by the end of the year." Why does this feel like a too traditional approach to media monitoring? How many departments have already cobbled together their own blog and internet monitoring functions, using Web 2.0 apps and other freebies? Is the media monitoring all centralized in the U.K. government, or do individual departments have their own media monitoring teams as well, to supplement the COI's service? That's the model we follow in Canada. “The blog monitoring would need a sufficient number of individual government departments to agree to cover the extra costs involved. If this happened, MMU estimates a service could operate by the end of the year.”

Why does this feel like a too traditional approach to media monitoring? How many departments have already cobbled together their own blog and internet monitoring functions, using Web 2.0 apps and other freebies?

Is the media monitoring all centralized in the U.K. government, or do individual departments have their own media monitoring teams as well, to supplement the COI’s service?

That’s the model we follow in Canada.

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