Just aware that I should be putting up some links to actual good public sector sites… I have worked at a University and know how f’ing hard they are to get right. The Open University do a stonkingly good job:
http://www.open.ac.uk/
Archive for September, 2006
OU Site
Posted in Good Sites on September 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Whipping boy
Posted in Office Politics on September 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Ahh, my boss has gone into paranoia mode. When I told her that I was delaying the launch because of late content she told me that she was not going to be ‘the whipping boy’. The content is her resposibility.
Aside from the obvious insanity and rudeness of this remark and the completely inappropriate naure of [...]
Calm regained
Posted in Office Politics on September 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
No, I’m not going to exaggerate the negativity – from yesterdays post you may think I am getting ready for a fight. But once again I will rise above the acrimony I have for my boss and, rather than fight my corner, I will merely stand firm: The website will go live when I say [...]
Pre-launch misunderstandings
Posted in Office Politics on September 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
One of the problems with being a specialist inside a generalist department (‘Corporate Affairs Group’) is that no one quite understands you. Nothing unexpected there, but at times like this, with a relaunch a few days away, a little understanding would go a long way…
One problem ‘we’ have is that Comms here are very used [...]
First up…
Posted in Just a rant on September 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So why start yet another bloody blog?
I got sick of moaning about web life in the public sector; I got sick of the sound of one man crapping; I got sick of thinking that one day I might get that great other job; I got sick of myself thinking of this as a temporary job…
I [...]
