Watch the whole of Us Now – now
Us Now is “A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet” and it’s also rather good. Even better, you can now watch all 60 minutes of it. Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo. Once…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
The importance of evaluation
Stephen Hale at the FCO has an excellent, interesting and important post about measuring the success of the London G20 Summit site. With wonderful openness and transparency, Stephen has set out some of the factors by which the site’s success…
A new collaborative community
Helen has launched a new community blogging project over at digtialengagement.org which aims to be: a collaborative space for all those interested in digital engagement to share ideas and agree priorities for action around digital engagement This is of a…
Cambridgeshire County Council uses YouTube to encourage new councillors
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.…
Remind us of your views, again?
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…
How close is local?
Paul Evans kindly asked me to write a post for the Local Democracy blog. I came up with one called How Close is Local? I live in a house on a street, in a village, within a parish, that is…
Weathering the storm with a blog
Looks you don’t have to have an environmentally friendly e-magazine to advise residents and local businesses about how to get through the recession. Carl Haggerty points to Devon’s Weathering the Storm site. Like Lincoln, they have got something up that’s…
Now, this is nice
Steph has posted about the work he has been doing getting the Power of Information Taskforce report online for interested folk to comment on it before it gets published. It’s a lovely piece of work: It is in fact a…
This is how it can be done
After all my moaning of recent times, a good news story. Lincoln City Council have released a site called Community Voice which links to all their ongoing consultations, with an RSS feed to keep up to date with new ones…
What should a council’s website look like?
Simon Wakeman presents a nice roundup of some of the new websites being launched, comparing Barnet and Cheltenham‘s latest efforts with the current poster-child, Redbridge. Generating an environment for residents to interact online with their councils will generate more engagement…