ReadWriteGov
There are plenty of events you can go to to find out about the social web, and how it can help public sector organisations, but they can be rather expensive, and pretty formal too. Another issue is that they are…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
My Building Democracy idea
I just had a request from someone asking what the best community sites are for a certain – fairly specific – group of people. A little digging, partly Google, partly ‘I know I’ve seen something like this somewhere…’, soon produced…
How councils can get started with social media
A sunday morning tweet from Tom Watson set my mind racing this morning: Which is a very interesting question, not least for me as I have a considerable interest in loca government’s use of social media, as facilitator of the…
Building democracy with a bug tracker
Tim Davies is a busy boy right now. As well as organising the upcoming UKYouthOnline unconference, he is also flinging his ideas into Building Democracy, the new competition to fund exciting ideas to revitalise people’ interest in participating in UK…
Digital Enabler
Since announcing that I am venturing into the world of self-employment, quite a few people have asked me the perfectly reasonable question of what it is that I am actually going to do. After much umming and ahing, I think…
Stratford Bin Calendar
Not the most enticing of titles, possibly, but Stratford-on-Avon Council have launched a neat new service allowing people to easily look up when their bins should be collected (strikes permitting, of course) without the need for scanning long tables of…
A GovWeb group blog?
There has been quite a lot of interest in the Public Sector Bloggers site I set up recently (and which I really must get around to updating soon), which has been very gratifying. One of the issues with it –…
What is a ‘Digital Mentor’?
One of the ideas in the Communities in Control white paper, published last week by the Department for Communities and Local Government, that has attracted a fair amount of attention is that of the ‘Digital Mentors’. Here’s what the paper…
Setback for public sector bloggers
Paul Canning brings to our attention the case of a sacked blogger at the Welsh Assembly. As reported at WalesOnline: AN Assembly Government civil servant who was sacked for running a political blog is taking his case to an Employment…
Interesting perspective
Colin McKay asks: Are our British colleagues missing the forest for the trees? They have a PM and two Ministers tweeting, soliciting comment and petitions online, running blogs and pulling back the curtain – at least somewhat. That’s infinitely more…