Stephen Hale

Managing websites

"If you run a website you’re expected to know so much stuff: editorial, design, technical, social media, evaluation, resource management. But that doesn’t mean you’re an expert on each (how could you be?)."

Well, I reckon the new Managing Websites blog can help. The blog is the brainchild of Liam King, who's one of the most effective and clear thinking web practitioners I know. It includes posts from Liam and Paul Hosking at the moment, but I know that Liam plans to recruit a squad of bloggers to share their experiences.

The blog is focussed on providing practical advice to people who run websites, using real examples and experiences. It's a welcome antidote to all the blog chatter about vague digital concepts, offering real help to people who run websites.

If you're responsible for managing web content, and have high expectations and limited resources, this blog will become required reading. 

They've been really generous with their tips so far including giving away Liam's trademark devolved editors tracker. 

And while I'm on the subject of other bloggers, I'm really looking forward to the blog-off between the Ronaldo and Kaka of UK government digital engagement in the new super team at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

Posted at 10:37 12 June 2009 by Stephen Hale  |  Comments[1]

Becoming a digital diplomat

We've advertised 3 Digital Diplomacy jobs today: a senior editor, a web prototype developer and a digital producer for our engagement work. It's an exciting time to be working on this kind of stuff in the Foreign Office - there's a lot we want to do, and we need brilliant people to help us to do it all. Note: these jobs have really short closing dates because we're impatient to get people in. If you're interested, follow the links.

Posted at 16:29 17 November 2008 by Stephen Hale  |  Comments[2]