Where does social media belong?

Well done Ingrid, whose post has caused a number of interesting discussions to kick off. One is around where social media activity belongs within an organisation. She writes (on her newish personal blog, which you really ought to subscribe to) 2. Social media in local gov become the domain of Comms A lot of comms … Keep reading

When clouds don’t taste so delicious

There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to find a way to make a service with plenty of active and dedicated users pay … Keep reading

Guide to Facebook Pages for Government Organisations

My partner in crime at Learning Pool, Breda Doherty, has written an awesome guide to using Facebook pages. She introduces it below – do have a read and then download the guide! Facebook is now used as an everyday means of communication and information source for most people, well if you agree that over 500Million … Keep reading

The future of comms in local government

The Local by Social online conference (various levels of sign-up required) is turning out to be a bit of a triumph. Yesterday saw some fascinating discussions about various elements of technology (mostly web) enabled change. Well done Ingrid (and team)! One was superbly facilitated by Walsall Council’s Dan Slee, who ran discussion on the subject … Keep reading