I’m currently working on a project called CompletelyNovel.com. It’s an online community of readers and writers, linked into printers, publishers an literary agents.
We offer a new way for readers and writers to interact with books and with each other, self-publish work and influence the decisions made by mainstream publishers on what they publish.
We are building up partnerships with publishers, literature development organisations, libraries and universities and are very interested in trying to expand our reach.
I came across you on Twitter and I was wondering if you might be able to suggest who might be best to talk to within the DIUS. We’ve got some exciting ideas that I’d love to discuss.
Interesting summary of opportunities and challenges for the new US administration in translating their online engagement into the US government machine […]
"When we talk about embedding social media, as of 2008, we mean equipping some brave pioneers with the equivalent of media training or putting some smartboards in meeting rooms, not putting a phone on everyone’s desk and expecting them to use it all day long." […]
Paul Clarke: "Here are just two of the many simple models of “a personal relationship with government” that you can use to illustrate the point about how it all complicates rather faster than you’d expect." […]
Dave Briggs: "What we seem to lack is an ecosystem of ideas in public services. Discussions about new ways of doing things, how to change the way things are, how ideas get progressed into prototypes and then into actual delivered services or ways of working. Whether this happens on a blog, in a social network, on a wiki or over a cup of tea is neither h […]
Steph Gray, post-bureaucrat interested in digital engagement in the UK public sector. Writing a personal blog here about the practical side of government's use of social media to fuel conversations between colleagues, with civil society and customers, and the tools to do it with.
Hi Steph,
I’m currently working on a project called CompletelyNovel.com. It’s an online community of readers and writers, linked into printers, publishers an literary agents.
We offer a new way for readers and writers to interact with books and with each other, self-publish work and influence the decisions made by mainstream publishers on what they publish.
We are building up partnerships with publishers, literature development organisations, libraries and universities and are very interested in trying to expand our reach.
I came across you on Twitter and I was wondering if you might be able to suggest who might be best to talk to within the DIUS. We’ve got some exciting ideas that I’d love to discuss.
All the best,
Anna
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