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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…

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…

Disposable online chat

TinyChat is a really cool new service that lets you create simple chatrooms on the fly within your browser. Why is this useful? Well, say you want to get a bunch of people together for a chat, but you don’t…

Blogging Tsar

The advert is up for the UK government’s Director of Digital Engagement. It looks like an exciting role with stacks of potential. Steph has already started to crowd source what it is that whoever gets the job should start doing.…

Convening through reporting

David Wilcox has published another great thought-piece on social reporting and exactly what it is and where it fits: I’m delighted to find there’s increasing interest in social reporting around events … which may start with an enquiry about how…