I’ve been playing around a little more with Google Coop, and discovered that you can use wildcards when defining the sites you want to search. The way the standard LGSearch works is that I provide Google with a list of…

Yep, a stackload of more sites have been added to LGSearch, making it a very useful thing indeed. The sites added come under the labels: Police and Fire Health LG Related And as with the Councils and Central Government sites,…

The first major update has been made to LGSearch, the now-inaccurately described local government search engine. The sites for central government departments have now been added. You can find a list of the sites included on the LGSearch project page…

Quite interesting chat between Stephen Fry and Tony Blair here.

Google’s Coop cusomised search engine now provides usage statistics. This is undoubtably a Good Thing. My customised search engine is LGSearch, one which searches local government websites. Sounds dull, but when you work for in local government, it’s useful. Obviously…

Simon Dickson reports on Digital Dialogues, of which the DD website explains: The purpose of Digital Dialogues is to assess the capacity of ICT to support central government’s communication and consultation activity (principally with the public but also with internal…

Have been back online for a few weeks now, though much of my attention on local government and new media matter has been focussed on the IDeA Communities of Practice platform, run by Steve Dale. I’d recommend that anyone interested…

Oliver Kamm on the government’s craven actions over the BAE fraud enquiry: Our overriding foreign policy goal is the defeat of aggressive terrorism. So pursuing an inquiry into corruption in an arms deal worth billions of pounds would risk disrupting…

After a pretty speedy burst of activity at the beginning, things are going to tail off for a little while here at LGNewMedia. I’m moving house this weekend, to a brand new place which hasn’t even got the phone connected…

Well, this is the first post on the new LGNewMedia site. The site is in continual development to try and get everything tied in and a reasonably common theme across the board. So, what’s LGNewMedia all about? Well, we aim…