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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…
Some dead interesting stuff popped up when I logged in this morning – all worth giving a read: Facebook buys FriendFeed Lots of people seem to be quite upset about this one. Friendfeed is still a pretty niche service, even…
I put a tweet out last week pointing people to a new domain, www.localgovweb.com, asking people to complete the form it contained. I asked for people’s: Blog addresses and whether they would like their posts to appear in an aggregated…
Here’s a list of some of the coverage of Friday’s event… I’ll keep it updated with everything I come across: Ingrid Koehler: Despite all the slickness and the fabulous hospitality, the day was kind of a near miss. Google knows…
From Google’s LocalGov event today, Alex Nurenberg talked us through the steps you can take to make sure your website works – in other words that visitors find what they want quickly, especially when they come in via a search…
I am rather pleased to be able to let everyone know that I’m starting work for Learning Pool this month. For those that don’t know, Learning Pool provide e-learning services to the public sector, with a focus on local government.…
The GoogleLocalGov event is taking place tomorrow, and by the sound of things it is going to be packed to the rafters with attendees and great content. Here is what topics will be being discussed by Google’s team of experts:…
This is the first of the series of guest posts here at DavePress, which will be coming each Wednesday for the next few weeks… Many thans to Sarah for taking the time out to write this! Less than a month…
As much as I enjoyed being involved in organising LocalGovCamp, when emails started to be sent to the group asking when the next one was, I was quick to distance myself from it. These things can take up a lot…
Things have been a little quiet on this blog of late – being on holiday didn’t help – but I guess I have just been rather busy doing stuff and haven’t had the chance to blog nearly as much as…