Doing IT in Public: Good Help is Hard to Find

You have meetings about phone calls and phone calls about meetings, suffer through countless white board exercises and design reviews, and hear from designers and consultants and attorneys -- all to end up as the bottom of the hour kicker on National Public Radio:

Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board is having to account for why its new Web site shows the state capitol in Madison in front of the Minneapolis skyline. An ethics officer explains that the Minneapolis skyline is a placeholder until an image of Madison that isn't copyrighted is found. The board didn't explain why the outside company that it paid a million dollars to design the Web site couldn't just take a picture.

There is a new temporary site that is free of any offending graphics but it doesn't look like a million bucks.