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What I’ve been reading

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Getting the digital debate going – Jimmy Leach announces the FCO's conference on cyberspace. Sounds interesting! Mid year review: the state of DH digital – Great honest review of activity…

Getting digital engagement right

Today I gave a talk at the CIPR public services communications conference. In case they are handy, here are the slides: Getting digital engagement right View more presentations from Kind of Digital.

Shelter Housing Database

Another useful open data visualisation resource, this time from Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity. The Shelter Housing Database“brings together government data on housing need, supply, affordability and other issues at a local, regional and national level”, allowing you to produce graphs…

Birmingham Civic Dashboard

The Birmingham Civic Dashboard is a neat project from the City Council that reports the requests made for services from the organisation and visualises them in interesting ways, such as by plotting them on a map. It was funded by…

Houses and clouds

The Government Digital Service blog is essential reading. Two recent posts well worth a look: What is that beautiful house? The phrase “not a CMS” has become a bit of a joke around the GovUK office (to the point where…

Being good at work

Lovely post from Stephen Hale: I think the culture and tools of social networking can go a long way to improve how people manage and share knowledge inside an organisation, and increase individuals’ productivity at work. Lots of people could…