Comments on: Government website = blog platform?

By: Whitehall must invest in innovation: Hansard Soc « I’m Simon Dickson.

Whitehall must invest in innovation: Hansard Soc « I’m Simon Dickson. — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:34:36 +0000

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By: Charlie Beckett

Charlie Beckett — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:47:28 +0000

I think it is much more basic than that. Anything that smacks of openess or interactivity is a threat to administrative (let alone political) control.

By: Kevin Peyton

Kevin Peyton — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:12:54 +0000

Madness.

the solution you describe sounds perfect for the solution at hand – particularly given that a longer-term CMS was planned anyway.

maybe you could have skinned this in a way which intimated a discount on price if they indeed DID go ahead with the CMS?

Kevin

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Dadblog » A bad morning for common sense — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:46:26 +0000

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By: David Crowther

David Crowther — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:24:25 +0000

I feel your pain.

By: Ian Douglas

Ian Douglas — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:16:05 +0000

Simon

I’m not really in a position to implement your idea, but I recognise the barrier you hit and sympathise. IT departments and buying decisions baffle me. I can’t think of a single thing that would fulfill the requirements of a CMS-driven website within weeks (or days) that wouldn’t be one of the blog (or other open-source) platforms, and they’d do it perfectly. Do you know what their long-term solution is?

You didn’t say the word ‘blog’ when you were presenting it, did you? Surely you know better than that?