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Local Gov is self organising

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…

Guest post on DavePress

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…

Bookmarks for July 11th through July 26th

Stuff I have bookmarked for July 11th through July 26th: Guide to Cross-Government Collaboration ~ Huddle – "Welcome to Huddle.net’s Guide to Collaboration for government and public sector. We tried to keep it simple, informative and agnostic." Open Atrium –…

WP Sauce

I threw this together this morning, it’s called WP Sauce: It simply pulls together the stuff people are bookmarking in Delicious about WordPress. I have added pretty much zero value to this, however, all the hard work was done by…

Bookmarks for June 3rd through July 4th

Stuff I have bookmarked for June 3rd through July 4th: I want to – Phil Bradley's awesome blog of web 2.0 tools and services. Online debate community for logical, passionate people – CreateDebate – CreateDebate is a social tool that…

Developing a community game

I have run the social media game many times now, and it always turns out differently and is always rewarding, and interesting. Basically, it is learning and FUN! Here is a PDF of the cards I used, which I put…

#GoogleLocalGov

Do you work in local government? Are you free on 7th August? Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices? Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of…

Evaluating online engagement

I’ve mentioned before that we all really need to start evaluating the online engagement stuff we’re all doing. Alice Casey‘s presentation provides some great pointers for where to start and what to consider: My main argument was that a good…