DavePress redux
I’m currently having a good sort out of this blog – and will be relaunching it with quite a few changes in the near future. I have found that running a self-hosted blog is a bit like running a PC,…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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LocalGovCamp stuff
A quick note on the LocalGovCamp site on who should consider attending. And on The Connected Republic, a call to local gov folk in other nations to consider running their own event.
Simon Wakeman: Local gov shoudn’t be on Facebook
Simon Wakeman has a thought-provoking post on whether Councils should maintain corporate presences in social networking sites like Facebook at all: People using social networks befriend (or fan, whatever the appropriate phrase is) organisations, movements, clubs etc on Facebook and…
Bookmarks for February 9th through February 25th
These are my links for February 9th from 20:38 to 20:38
LocalGovCamp update
A few things have been happening behind the scenes, and I think it is about time that LocalGovCamp was ‘officially’ launched in some way. I guess this is it. The event will probably take place in June, probably in Birmingham…
Friendless council
A tweet from the Public Sector Forums Twitter feed alerted me to this story of Stockport Council’s Facebook presence, which, at the time the article was written, wasn’t particularly popular: A LOCAL authority which reached out to the Facebook generation…
Real Help Now
Simon Dickson reports on the new site from the UK Government which currently aggregates news from around the country on what help is available to help businesses and individuals through the current economic difficulties. Fundamentally, in this initial build, it’s…
Mini
I treated myself to a new toy today, a Mac Mini. Here it is, next to the rather splendid curtains in our spare room: To be honest, I really want a nice big iMac but can’t afford it. The Mini…
Open Coffee Cambridge
Thanks to the ever-resourceful Peter Clark, Open Coffee has come to Cambridge. Excellent!
Visit Cambridge site hacked
Cambridge City Council’s Visit Cambridge tourism site has been hacked, with various unsavoury pictures and links added, reports the Cambridge News: CAMBRIDGE’S official tourism website was still offline today after pornographic images were posted in place of pictures of the…