Comments on: Update: who blocks?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:42:00 +0000

Add NMSI (that includes the Science Museum (London), National Railway Museum (York), National Media Museum (Bradford)) to the “who knows, but probably blocked” list. I emailed their IT department asking them to take part but they refused. In my experience as Head of Web there, this kind of blocking is a consistent and ridiculous problem

By: Unblocking the Blockers at Helpful Technology

Unblocking the Blockers at Helpful Technology — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:56:07 +0000

[...] UPDATE: the results are in. [...]

By: Neil Franklin

Neil Franklin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:49:15 +0000

Would be good to compare this to previous work by PSF:
http://is.gd/i9o2

Maybe a yearly audit is in order? Name and shame until we get a common(ish) usage policy.

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:37:22 +0000

And therein lies the rub: even though the people tasked with “connecting” with the public may be perfectly capable of it in terms of skills, the organisations that want it to happen in the first place put every obstacle in the way that they can.

Sounds like a fairly typical public sector gig, to me.

By: Podnosh Blog » Archive » New small tools for better government, horrid pdf’s and the Power of Information Report in Beta

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:11:08 +0000

[...] of which social media sites government can and cannot access. The detailed results can be found here whilst the The key problem areas then seem to [...]

By: Follow up to Stephen and Steph’s stuff, plus some interesting posts from Mitch Sava « Emma Mulqueeny

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:18 +0000

[...] addition to this, Steph Gray has posted the results of his experiment into social media blockers in the public [...]

By: Ross Ferguson

Ross Ferguson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:27:32 +0000

Well done on the idea and pulling it together. Thanks for the data access. You should do a visualisation too.

By: Blocking access to online tools | PhillipDade.com

Blocking access to online tools | PhillipDade.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:59:48 +0000

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

By: STOP BLOCKING | DavePress

STOP BLOCKING | DavePress — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:13:50 +0000

[...] Steph has released some details of his short survey of the blocking of useful websites within the public sector. The following figures show the percentages of organisations which allow access to each type of site: Google 100% LinkedIn 100% NetMums 100% Wikipedia 97% Digg 97% Google Reader 91% Wordpress.com 89% Yahoo account 86% Flickr 83% Twitter 83% Bebo 69% YouTube (able to see well) 63% Gmail 60% Facebook 54% [...]

By: Even Obama gets locked down « Local Democracy

Even Obama gets locked down « Local Democracy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:03:07 +0000

[...] Steph’s results are up! Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)from an xbox to an atariRacist E-Mails About [...]