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An online notebook
On Monday and Tuesday of this week I will be spending a couple of days at the Digital Inclusion Conference, helping to make the event a little more, well, inclusive by doing some social reporting. It won’t just be me,…
LGSearch is a search engine for the UK public sector that I developed quite a while ago. It’s built on Google Custom Search, and isn’t particularly clever, but is rather useful. Anyway, inspired by Simon’s recent efforts on behalf of…
LocalGovCamp is happening on 20th June at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. You can get your ticket here. More here.
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…
I am rather excited to be live blogging the Digital Britain Summit tomorrow, providing one way for the many interested folk who were unable to attend to still find out what is being said, by who. It’s a really good…
Despina Babbage from the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development in the government of the state of Victoria in Australia emailed me this morning to let me know about her blog, which is all about citizen engagement. It’s well…
Mash the State is a campaign to “encourage UK government and public sector organisations to make their data available to the general public.” The first part of the campaign is dedicated to getting local authorities in the UK using RSS…
It’s the right thing to do.
The first day of the Councillors Connected online conference was really successful, with some excellent contributions from a whole host of different people. Here are some of my highlights: A fantastic debate about the meaning of local to different people.…
Over the next three days, a rather special event is taking place online – a virtual conference for council officers and members to learn about the benefits of using social media to engage with communities. It’s happening on the IDeA…