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After a break of a week, the guest posts are back! This time it’s Mark Pack, who has written a handy guide for councillors on how to get to grips with the net. It is pretty rare these days to…
Well done to Richard Smedley who has won my spare – but pristine! – copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers in the first and perhaps last competition to be held here on DavePress. Richard blogs at Good GNUs and is @richardsmedley…
Stuff I have bookmarked for July 27th through August 20th: Linked data, swings and roundabouts « Policy and Performance – "We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps…
Dom Campbell of FutureGov has blogged about the start of a new project around how the web can help improve and innovate in children’s services. This project will kick off with a get together of interested folk: To start off…
LocalGovCamb is the latest regional LocalGovCamp to be arranged. I’m helping put this together with Michele Ide-Smith. There are hardly any details, really. December this year or January 2010. Somewhere in Cambridge. Theme will be local government innovation. While the…
There is a lot of discussion about social media policies, especially in government. People want documents to set out how staff can and should use social networks and other websites to engage with citizens and groups, and what the protocol…
Learning Pool are running a free breakfast meeting for local authorities in the East and West Midlands. This meeting will give you the chance to see and hear what your neighboring local authorities are doing with E-Learning, hear how you…
Those who attended, or would have liked to have done, the Google event last week might be interested in a new group we have set up: To talk about how local government can use Google tools. Though this isn’t…
I was lucky, in a sense, to get this through the post today as a reward for subscribing to a magazine: “In a sense”, because I already own it. ‘So!’ I thought. ‘Here’s a chance for a competition!’ If you…
The second Wednesday guest post! Thanks to Sarah for this great post – if you’d like to contribute, just email me – and being called Sarah isn’t necessarily a requirement! Online communication isn’t always taken seriously. It’s a nice to…