Stap isi

10 May 2009

Let's get chartered

I like to bang on about the importance of web teams in councils – and have suggested that informal working groups be formed in advance of managerial recognition or organisational change.

Paul Canning suggests how we might achieve formal recognition:

One solution to the myriad of problems I see in how government webbies operate and the environment in which they operate, on which I have been working, is to establish professional status through a new organisation.

[W]eb skills are both new and unique. IT doesn’t have them, Comms don’t have them – only webbies do but they are unrecognised. Raising recognition must happen alongside raising standards. Simply put, a way must be found for webbies who know what they are talking about to have a real voice.

He points to the U.S. Federal Web Managers Council as an exemplar. (See also Three Pieces Make A Whole Better Online Government.) I look forward with interest to the U.K. initiative.

Update: Paul’s follow-up post with useful presentation.

— b3rn   web teams   May 10, 12:25 PM   #

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