Comments on: Unblocking the Blockers

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:06:03 +0000

Interesting – thanks Robin. I’ll take a look.

By: Robin Street

Robin Street — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:53:16 +0000

Hi, A very useful tool that I have just asked some 29 local authities across the Yorkshire & Humber region to run as I’m working on a region wide project using social media in regulatory services. Several of the authorities have come back to me with a problem with the test and the twitter page. Instead of loading withing the box it hijacks the browser and displays a full page and you can’t then return to the test. Perhaps you could add an option as per Yahoo with a new page or tab ann return.

Thanks

By: Pirsey

Pirsey — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:03:36 +0000

This is quite a up-to-date information. I’ll share it on Delicious.

By: Ian Watson

Ian Watson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:50:31 +0000

This is a welcome initiative which I hope will stimulate a change in attitudes. I’ve given it a plug on our website (http://www.iriss.ac.uk/node/718) and in our webwatch column in a mag called Care Appointments.

By: Building an OpenGov Index

Building an OpenGov Index — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:25:32 +0000

[...] the results of a little skunkworks project he ran to answer this question. As he describes in his original post, his objective was to: We have the Civil Service guidance on participation online, and yet in [...]

By: Blocking access to online tools | PhillipDade.com

Blocking access to online tools | PhillipDade.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:00:03 +0000

[...] on Twitter) blog, Helpul Technology. He has provided some very interesting results to his ‘Who Blocks – Social Media Test Suite‘ survey of Local [...]

By: Time wasting « Policy and Performance

Time wasting « Policy and Performance — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:42:04 +0000

[...] Gray at DIUS has developed a handy little tool for detecting which social media applications have been blocked at [...]

By: Update: who blocks? at Helpful Technology

Update: who blocks? at Helpful Technology — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:33:28 +0000

[...] all for a great response to the Social Media Test Suite survey – in just over a week, 55 people helped out sharing data about the internet access policies of 35 [...]

By: Even Obama gets locked down « Local Democracy

Even Obama gets locked down « Local Democracy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:09:59 +0000

[...] this from the Washington Post to me – It may cheer Steph up a little to know that he’s not fighting a purely British problem…. “Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in [...]

By: Steph Gray reaches for the big guns « Emma Mulqueeny

Steph Gray reaches for the big guns « Emma Mulqueeny — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:34:21 +0000

[...] Steph Gray, the community manager at DIUS, has decided to start fighting corporate decisions to close down access to social media by creating this social media test suite. Here is his blurb: So let’s try and build a picture of access to social media tools from the workplace. Please run my social media test suite survey from your workplace machine and let’s see who the blockers are. I’m happy to publish here, or in the survey results you can see when you complete the survey, any appropriate explanations or justifications from IT providers. I know there can be good reasons for limiting access, and we should separate those from the bad ones. [...]