See, local gov *can* do Facebook

One of the highlights of last Wednesday’s LGComms event was hearing about Coventry City Council‘s Facebook page. If you click to see the larger image, you’ll notice that the page has 11,321 fans (as at the time of writing). 11,321! Remarkable stuff. As I wrote, quite a while ago now, it’s tricky to use Facebook … Keep reading

Movements this week

Another busy week this. Tomorrow I am speaking at 4Children’s 18th Annual Policy Conference, on the subject of engaging young people with social media. I understand Tim Davies was unavailable 😉 On Thursday Mary and I will be traveling down to Devon to hang out in Exeter for a couple of days. The Thursday itself … Keep reading

JFDI vs Being Boring

Light blogging recently, I’ve been gadding about talking at a load of events – which is fun and rewarding in its own way, but doesn’t really help with getting any work done, nor with writing here. Last Wednesday I was at the LGComms seminar on digital communications, and had the opening slot explaining why all … Keep reading

Bookmarks for February 10th through February 20th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Typists in the Sky | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com – "The self controlled side of 2.0 computing can be very enabling and efficient for those who can organize themselves well for business and for pleasure, but collectively we are increasingly at the mercy of the … Keep reading