Get a job in local gov social media

Brighton and Hove City Council are advertising for a Social Media Officer! You are a Facebook pro, the fastest Twitter tweeter on the planet? Do you love nothing more but connecting with folks online? Are you one step ahead of…

For the last time…stop blocking!

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…

Disruptive communities

A few interesting sites I’ve come across in the last few weeks have got me thinking – always dangerous – and have also connected some stuff in my head. As always, I might have got this wrong, but thought it…

Compo winner!

Well done to Richard Smedley who has won my spare – but pristine! – copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers in the first and perhaps last competition to be held here on DavePress. Richard blogs at Good GNUs and is @richardsmedley…

The web and safeguarding – a new project

Dom Campbell of FutureGov has blogged about the start of a new project around how the web can help improve and innovate in children’s services. This project will kick off with a get together of interested folk: To start off…

LocalGovCamb

LocalGovCamb is the latest regional LocalGovCamp to be arranged. I’m helping put this together with Michele Ide-Smith. There are hardly any details, really. December this year or January 2010. Somewhere in Cambridge. Theme will be local government innovation. While the…

Social media staff guidelines

There is a lot of discussion about social media policies, especially in government. People want documents to set out how staff can and should use social networks and other websites to engage with citizens and groups, and what the protocol…

Free Local Gov E-Learning Event in Ripley

Learning Pool are running a free breakfast meeting for local authorities in the East and West Midlands. This meeting will give you the chance to see and hear what your neighboring local authorities are doing with E-Learning, hear how you…

GoogleLocalGov community

Those who attended, or would have liked to have done, the Google event last week might be interested in a new group we have set up: To talk about how local government can use Google tools. Though this isn’t…

Win! Win! Win!

I was lucky, in a sense, to get this through the post today as a reward for subscribing to a magazine: “In a sense”, because I already own it. ‘So!’ I thought. ‘Here’s a chance for a competition!’ If you…

Getting noticed: The Five Step Programme

The second Wednesday guest post! Thanks to Sarah for this great post – if you’d like to contribute, just email me – and being called Sarah isn’t necessarily a requirement! Online communication isn’t always taken seriously. It’s a nice to…

Some interesting reading

Some dead interesting stuff popped up when I logged in this morning – all worth giving a read: Facebook buys FriendFeed Lots of people seem to be quite upset about this one. Friendfeed is still a pretty niche service, even…

LocalGovWeb – an exercise in aggregation

I put a tweet out last week pointing people to a new domain, www.localgovweb.com, asking people to complete the form it contained. I asked for people’s: Blog addresses and whether they would like their posts to appear in an aggregated…

GoogleLocalGov review

Here’s a list of some of the coverage of Friday’s event… I’ll keep it updated with everything I come across: Ingrid Koehler: Despite all the slickness and the fabulous hospitality, the day was kind of a near miss. Google knows…

How to make websites work

From Google’s LocalGov event today, Alex Nurenberg talked us through the steps you can take to make sure your website works – in other words that visitors find what they want quickly, especially when they come in via a search…

Dave @ Learning Pool

I am rather pleased to be able to let everyone know that I’m starting work for Learning Pool this month. For those that don’t know, Learning Pool provide e-learning services to the public sector, with a focus on local government.…