Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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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!…

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…

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…

Podcasting

I had the pleasure of being asked to be a part of Gov 2.0 radio, a live phone-in podcast about government and the web based in the States. Due to timezone stuff it meant I had to stay up til…

Bookmarks for February 9th through February 10th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Buzz by Brad Fitzpatrick from Buzz – How to add your blog's RSS feed to your Google Buzz stream (it's quite tricky) Blogging and Facebook for councillors – "An increasing…

Buzzin’ enterprise

Two interesting viewpoints on Google Buzz and its potential application behind the firewall, within organisations. Firstly, Larry Dignan on ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog points out that perhaps Google has Sharepoint, not Twitter, in its sights: The Google Buzz playbook…

Google goes for Twitter

Google Buzz is the search engine giant’s latest attempt to get social to work within its suite of applications. Strangely, while we use Google’s stuff for all sorts of things, from searching to email to RSS aggregation to document editing,…

Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 8th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. WordPress Mobile Pack « WordPress Plugins – "The WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog."   A digital engagement framework adapted for…