There are a number of reasons why Governments need to start looking at Gov 2.0.  One of those reasons is because citizens are using these tools to talk about what is going on in Governments already.  Governments need to get involved in these...

I would like to welcome Gordon McKenzie to the world of blogging!  Gordon is a colleague of mine who looks after the business side of things on CSP and has just started blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/gordonm . For those who know Gordon, he has...

I often get asked how and where people can get hold of the Microsoft CSP VPC Demo to download. This demo is hosted on www.microsoftpsdemos.com and takes you though how products like SharePoint and Dynamics CRM can help Government Organisations improve...

So the first question that springs to most people’s minds is “what on earth is the Windows Live Admin Center” (aside from another triumph from the Microsoft Product Naming Department). Well it used to be called Windows Live Custom Domains (which was a...

I referenced some of the issues that Gov 2.0 can come up against in some previous posts, and it is going to be interesting watching the successes and failures in this space over the next few years.  In the post Welcome to America 2.0 I highlighted...

There have been a number of different threads discussing whether Government should even have web sites at all.  Starting back in the spring last year the Garner analyst Andrea Di Maio proposed ‘The future of Government is no Government’ , and since...

There have been a number of events and posts over the last few weeks that have raised issues with the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.  Now just to get things straight upfront, I think SaaS is great.  There are some fantastic examples of...