[wdmmg-discuss] Next steps with ask.wheredoesmymoneygo.org

Mon Jul 12 13:25:20 UTC 2010

> Thayer: would data.gov.uk be up for helping with this? (E.g. helping
> to get UK gov folks on board, blogging, etc.)

Absolutely.  Do you have a time line so I can see where it would fit
in current priorities, and ensure when you're ready to hit the big pr
button we're all chatting about it at the same time?

Have you looked at approaching events to do speaking gigs too?  I may
be able to help with that regards leads to events & intros.

Kindest

Thayer

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Amazing work with getting ask.wheredoesmymoneygo.org up and running!
>
> In terms of building up a community around this (which will be a key
> part of making this a truly valuable ancillary service), suggest we:
>
>  - invite UK government folks (HMT, OPSI, data.gov.uk), journalists,
> researchers, NGOs, etc to join the site
>  - create a 'community' page to list some key representatives from
> these fields so users have a sense of the expertise behind the site
>  - do a big announce (blog/tweet etc) -- and a press release if there
> is widespread enough buy-in to make it newsworthy
>
> Also -- very trivial thing -- but is it easy to customise
> design/branding to give same visual identity with main WDMMG site?
>
> Thayer: would data.gov.uk be up for helping with this? (E.g. helping
> to get UK gov folks on board, blogging, etc.)
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
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