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The GoogleLocalGov event is taking place tomorrow, and by the sound of things it is going to be packed to the rafters with attendees and great content. Here is what topics will be being discussed by Google’s team of experts:…
This is the first of the series of guest posts here at DavePress, which will be coming each Wednesday for the next few weeks… Many thans to Sarah for taking the time out to write this! Less than a month…
As much as I enjoyed being involved in organising LocalGovCamp, when emails started to be sent to the group asking when the next one was, I was quick to distance myself from it. These things can take up a lot…
Things have been a little quiet on this blog of late – being on holiday didn’t help – but I guess I have just been rather busy doing stuff and haven’t had the chance to blog nearly as much as…
I threw this together this morning, it’s called WP Sauce: It simply pulls together the stuff people are bookmarking in Delicious about WordPress. I have added pretty much zero value to this, however, all the hard work was done by…
Great work from the webbies at Number 10. Wanting a way to let Sarah Brown discuss some of the activities going on around the G8 summit, they produced a great quick-and-dirty solution by hosting a blog using the free WordPress.com…
I have run the social media game many times now, and it always turns out differently and is always rewarding, and interesting. Basically, it is learning and FUN! Here is a PDF of the cards I used, which I put…
Do you work in local government? Are you free on 7th August? Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices? Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of…
I’ve mentioned before that we all really need to start evaluating the online engagement stuff we’re all doing. Alice Casey‘s presentation provides some great pointers for where to start and what to consider: My main argument was that a good…
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett, Worstword Ho (1983)
Be Vocal is A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful. It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from…
Nice video from Google explaining the forms function in Docs‘ spreadsheets, which I have found my self starting to use rather a lot.
Image credit: Arun. LocalGovCamp last Saturday was a marvellous day, lots of great conversations and everybody seemed to have a good time. David Wilcox caught up with me just before lunch for a chat about how things were going: There…
I can’t think of much other than LocalGovCamp now. Am literally widdly with excitement at what will be a fabulous day. Despite the disappointment of a few folk having to drop out at this late stage, the demand for places…
Dom at FutureGov has launched the FutureGovNetwork: We have developed this site as a really straight forward, open and easy to use place to start to capture those things that we all do to improve public services – share stuff…
Video hosting is always a bit of a bother, as no one service does it all, as far as I am aware. I did a fair bit of social reporting last week, and am already running into difficulties in finding…
Has it really been two weeks since I last posted here? Well, I’ve been busy, doing stuff. I promise. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the stuff I would normally have been writing about here during the whirlwind of…
Much planning is afoot for LocalGovCamp, the unconference for local government which is taking place on 20th June in Birmingham. All tickets are technically sold out, but if you are desperate to come, email me. I took a wander around…
Google have announced something really rather interesting called Wave. (Warning: looooooong video) Essentially, A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared.…
Here is a really interesting presentation on how elements of games can help engage people within a community – and therefore also, possibly, a process. Putting the Fun in Functional View more OpenOffice presentations from amyjokim. Thanks to Rich Millington…