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Stuff I have bookmarked for March 8th through March 14th: James Harkin on why gregarious online communities are a myth – Potentially interesting piece that turns out to be bereft of any kind of substance. Shame. How is this thing…
I’m going to be facilitating an online conference with Steve, Ingrid and others, which will be all about encouraging councillors to make better use of social web technology. It will be happening on a Community of Practice, meaning that there…
I just won one of these on ebay: It works, too. Can’t wait to have it up and running. Anyone up for a game of Chuckie Egg?
Effective Social Media & Web 2.0 Strategies for Local Authorities is a new event from Public Sector Forums, happening at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester on 30 April 2009. I have the pleasure of chairing the event, as well as giving…
I’ve just found out that my sister is on Twitter. Do say hello to her – I’m sure that as a press officer for a big charity, she’d love to hear how they can be using Twitter and other services…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 4th through March 8th: Finding a political navigator – Neville's thoughtful view on the Director of Digital Engagement post. How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology – Steph on sharing your code…
Cambridgeshire County Council have put up some videos on their YouTube channel from the leaders of the three main political groups on the Council. The aim of the videos are to encourage people to put themselves forward to become councillors.…
I wrote a little while ago about how council’s websites might look, and ventured the idea that perhaps all that is needed is a big search box. Look what Cheltenham Borough Council have got now! OK, so it isn’t the…
Last week, the Cabinet Office published a new action plan for government and open source, to level the playing field when it comes to procuring software. So we consider that the time is now right to build on our record…
Stuff I have bookmarked for February 26th through March 3rd: Getting Started: gadgets.* API – Gadgets – Google Code – Via @lesteph – create Google Gadgets to go on things like iGoogle pages. The Times & CUNY (and others) go…
…that is struggling with some of this stuff. Take a look at Phil Bradley’s marvellous post, railing against the attitudes of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals): The next section really did make my jaw drop. “In…
I wrote a little while back about a fairly terrible website being used by Cambridgeshire’s Transport Commission to consult people on their views. Cambridge News now reports: A PROBE into Cambridgeshire’s transport crisis – including the idea of a congestion…
Didn’t you know cars come from out of the ground? 🙂 Taken near Waterbeach Station, this morning.
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,…
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 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…
These are my links for February 9th from 20:38 to 20:38
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…
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…
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…