Comments on: Is Miliband giving activists a role on the inside? http://www.sosaidthe.org/2007/07/21/is-miliband-giving-activists-a-role-on-the-inside/ How Government Organizations Communicate and Integrate Social Media Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Simon Dickson http://www.sosaidthe.org/2007/07/21/is-miliband-giving-activists-a-role-on-the-inside/#comment-221 Simon Dickson Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:25:47 +0000 http://www.sosaidthe.org/2007/07/21/is-miliband-giving-activists-a-role-on-the-inside/#comment-221 We shouldn't be at all surprised to see Miliband approaching things this way - especially in the context of the recent Mayo/Steinberg report which called on departments to use existing third-party networks, rather than trying to build their own. Besides, I don't think diplomacy is ready for a blogging Foreign Secretary; and Avaaz.org is a safe partner for a supposed Blairite, given its links back to MoveOn.org. Yes, the digg/delicious/reddit buttons are a new addition, but so far they haven't been too effective: only two individuals seem to have used them, and I suspect they're both FCO staffers. I've met with the FCO web team in the recent past; unless they were bluffing, I don't think they had particular plans for something like this. But then again, I don't think they were expecting to get Miliband in the reshuffle. We shouldn’t be at all surprised to see Miliband approaching things this way - especially in the context of the recent Mayo/Steinberg report which called on departments to use existing third-party networks, rather than trying to build their own. Besides, I don’t think diplomacy is ready for a blogging Foreign Secretary; and Avaaz.org is a safe partner for a supposed Blairite, given its links back to MoveOn.org.

Yes, the digg/delicious/reddit buttons are a new addition, but so far they haven’t been too effective: only two individuals seem to have used them, and I suspect they’re both FCO staffers.

I’ve met with the FCO web team in the recent past; unless they were bluffing, I don’t think they had particular plans for something like this. But then again, I don’t think they were expecting to get Miliband in the reshuffle.

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