Comments on: Welcome to the machine http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/2008/09/welcome-to-the-machine/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:35:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: James http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/2008/09/welcome-to-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-133 James Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:12:16 +0000 http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/?p=23#comment-133 Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James. Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

]]> By: FutureGov » Useful links » links for 2008-09-12 http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/2008/09/welcome-to-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-128 FutureGov » Useful links » links for 2008-09-12 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:01:07 +0000 http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/?p=23#comment-128 [...] Welcome to the machine | Helpful Technology Really nice look at what it means to be a civil servant and how its changed over the years. (tags: civilservice government social media communications management) [...] [...] Welcome to the machine | Helpful Technology Really nice look at what it means to be a civil servant and how its changed over the years. (tags: civilservice government social media communications management) [...]

]]> By: Stuart Reid http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/2008/09/welcome-to-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Stuart Reid Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:30:36 +0000 http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/?p=23#comment-127 Really nice story, and brilliant quote from Douglas Adams. I only really looked at whatdotheyknow for the first time this week, and think it has exactly the potential you attribute to it. Really nice story, and brilliant quote from Douglas Adams. I only really looked at whatdotheyknow for the first time this week, and think it has exactly the potential you attribute to it.

]]> By: Nick Booth http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/2008/09/welcome-to-the-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Nick Booth Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:16:05 +0000 http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/?p=23#comment-123 Lovely post. You can't demonstrate you're integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality in isolation. You need to do it in a cupel of circumstances, when you are working on something or talking to someone. The conversations tied up with the social web are ideal environments to test and take pride in those qualities. It is actually a place where the civil service can show of its hard fought for qualities and reinforce public trust. The pace of technological change is less an barrier to this than attitudes to the civil servants relationship to the rest of "us". Lovely post. You can’t demonstrate you’re integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality in isolation. You need to do it in a cupel of circumstances, when you are working on something or talking to someone.

The conversations tied up with the social web are ideal environments to test and take pride in those qualities. It is actually a place where the civil service can show of its hard fought for qualities and reinforce public trust.

The pace of technological change is less an barrier to this than attitudes to the civil servants relationship to the rest of “us”.

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