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Awesomeness off of the internet for September 13th to September 16th: The US Government Is Going Google – "It looks like The White House has copied a page from Google’s playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to…
I had an enjoyable morning today with a bunch of local government communicators, at an LGC organised conference. It was also a great opportunity to catch up with my buddies Carl, Dominic and Simon. Here are my slides, where I…
There has been a great response to the What makes for a decent council website? experiment. Here’s the top 5 at the end of the first day: Plain english – Jargon and acronyms should be kept to the absolute minimum,…
After the kerfuffle over the Birmingham City Council website, as expertly documented by Paul Canning, there has been a considerable amount of discussion about what a Council website should look like, and what it should actually do. This isn’t just…
I’ve got a few speaking engagements coming up, as well as other events that look like fun… 1. Developing Public Sector Communications through Social Media, 15th September, London This is an LGC event, spending the whole day talking about how…
Sometimes it’s nice to hear what tech people use on a day to day basis. It’s useful to pick up hints and tips, and to pick up on cool tools you might not have heard of before. Here’s my day-to-day…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 9th through September 12th: Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: How do you create a culture that is not afraid to fail (or be more receptive to social media?) – Great post…
Interesting paper from Delib on the approach to government taken by the Obama administration in the States: The reality has certainly been a lot more muted than most geeks would have liked. Nothing overly glam and technologically ground-breaking, but instead…
DotSpots looks interesting: DotSpots is an annotation platform that allows users to add text or video comments to any piece of text on the web. Dotspots searches through millions of online news articles, indexing paragraphs of text and using an…
I rather enjoyed the Derren Brown stuff this week around predicting the lottery numbers. It was enjoyable and entertaining, and anyone expecting anything approaching seriousness was always going to be disappointed. But what of averaging out the views of the…
No matter. Use Creately instead.
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 6th: How to Keep WordPress Secure – The official word on preventing your WP site getting hacked. The Ugliest Website in the World – “Craigslist is willing to do the basic,…
As pointed out by Nick.
An email from my friend Paul Johnston – he’s a Cisco public sector specialist and is behind the rather neat Connected Republic site – alerts me to EUPS 2.0 initiative. Here’s how it is explained: Every two years, EU Ministers…
Brighton and Hove City Council are advertising for a Social Media Officer! You are a Facebook pro, the fastest Twitter tweeter on the planet? Do you love nothing more but connecting with folks online? Are you one step ahead of…
There was all sorts of excitement yesterday with the news that yet another Council has reacted to the fact that some of their staff spend some of their time using social networks. This from Arun on LocalGov.co.uk: Staff at Portsmouth…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 20th through September 2nd: Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” Derry firm…
A few interesting sites I’ve come across in the last few weeks have got me thinking – always dangerous – and have also connected some stuff in my head. As always, I might have got this wrong, but thought it…
After a break of a week, the guest posts are back! This time it’s Mark Pack, who has written a handy guide for councillors on how to get to grips with the net. It is pretty rare these days to…
Well done to Richard Smedley who has won my spare – but pristine! – copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers in the first and perhaps last competition to be held here on DavePress. Richard blogs at Good GNUs and is @richardsmedley…