Thanks for your comment. My reference to the strictness of non-attribution of VPSCIN posts was to the comments on Anecdote by a third party rather than my own personal views - it is something that every corporate (including government) blog has to have a policy on - you are either reaching out to your audience on a first name basis or not. In your case, because the audience (CIN members) knows you, you are doing this. Where it will get tricky into the future is a situation like Centrelink where some employees are subject to verbal and physical abuse - if they are writing a public-facing blog, will they give their name as author? What about agencies that have a strict anonymity principle?

I applaud the efforts of VPSCIN and yourself in taking this first step into a wider better world - I believe that you are pioneers in what is set to become accepted practice in the near future.

Best regards, Andrew

In addition to this we like to encourage a whole of network ownership of the blog via the comments function and opportunity to submit posts, so it does not pay to have the same name appearing day in day out on most posts.

Finally, comments good, bad and indifferent are posted. To date we have not received any content sufficiently inappropriate not to publish (apart from the never ending spam of course.)

this whole concept grew out of conversations that I’ve had with yourself and Matthew Hodgson - after that, it was just observation.

Best regards, Andrew

See my post on this and other matters at Government 2.0 and the growing need for social computing.

(Andrew note: I’ve put the URL into a hyperlink to preserve but shorten it - it is well worth a read)