Tuesday, 28 April, 2009

Social networking in local gov event

I’m going to be speaking at and chairing an event run by Public Sector Forums this Thursday, which is going to be all about how local authorities could be using social web technology to reach out to citizens. I’m going…

Sunday, 26 April, 2009

Bookmarks for April 19th through April 26th

Stuff I have bookmarked for April 19th through April 26th: Oh Yeah? Prove It. | Power Shift – Social Media Blog – Useful piece on measuring social media activity OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles : Tim’s…

Add LGSearch to your browser

LGSearch is a search engine for the UK public sector that I developed quite a while ago. It’s built on Google Custom Search, and isn’t particularly clever, but is rather useful. Anyway, inspired by Simon’s recent efforts on behalf of…

Friday, 24 April, 2009

Monday, 20 April, 2009

The importance of evaluation

Stephen Hale at the FCO has an excellent, interesting and important post about measuring the success of the London G20 Summit site. With wonderful openness and transparency, Stephen has set out some of the factors by which the site’s success…

Thursday, 16 April, 2009

Tuesday, 14 April, 2009

Citizen Engagement in Australia

Despina Babbage from the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development in the government of the state of Victoria in Australia emailed me this morning to let me know about her blog, which is all about citizen engagement. It’s well…

Monday, 13 April, 2009

Bookmarks for April 4th through April 13th

Stuff I have bookmarked for April 4th through April 13th: Working with us – Collaborative Innovation – Programmes – NESTA – Amplified City is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across…

Sunday, 12 April, 2009

Mash the State

Mash the State is a campaign to “encourage UK government and public sector organisations to make their data available to the general public.” The first part of the campaign is dedicated to getting local authorities in the UK using RSS…