An online notebook
I had an interesting time at Socitm09 – a lot of the conversations I had were useful, and others fruitful. I won’t lie to you, though, a lot of what I saw and heard I found pretty painful. My Twitter followers will no doubt know the exact point at which my frustration boiled over somewhat. … Keep reading
The Knowledge Hub is a terrifically ambitious project being run by IDeA, in partnership with CLG, to bring knowledge and information sharing to the local government sector. A mixture of technology and capacity building, the aim is to alter the culture of local government, to change the way people in councils think about how success … Keep reading
As a user of Google’s enterprise tools, usually known as Google Apps, Socialwok looks very interesting. It sticks a social networking layer on top of your email, calendar, Docs and so on – something that the Google suite was really missing if being used as the main infrastructure for an organisation. Here is a video … Keep reading
There was all sorts of excitement yesterday with the news that yet another Council has reacted to the fact that some of their staff spend some of their time using social networks. This from Arun on LocalGov.co.uk: Staff at Portsmouth City Council have been banned from using social networking sites after a local paper investigation … Keep reading
Image credit: Steven Tuck I had a remarkably fun time up in Manchester last week, chairing the Public Sector Forums event at Old Trafford about local government web 2.0 strategies. There was a whole lot of Twitter action during the day, which you can take a look at in this Google Spreadsheet. The tweets and … Keep reading