digitalcllr – Dave Briggs

Launching the DigitalCllr survey

survey I’ve been doing work with local councillors for some time now – helping them see how they can use the internet to better engage with citizens, and communicate with them too.

This takes the form of running training workshops usually. There’s probably a better way of doing it, but they are probably a bit tricky to procure.

Anyway, I’m interested in finding out where we are up to with digitally savvy elected local representatives, so I have thrown together a quick survey. The main aim to to find out what councillors are doing on the internet, and try and spread the word to their less keen colleagues about how it’s working.

So, if you are a councillor, or you know one, spread the word about the survey. Here’s the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitalcllr – I’ll be blogging about the results, so we can all benefit.

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to:

Integrate Your Apps | Zapier – Sync the Web – An ifttt for business web applications. Potentially vey handy.
What Organizations Can Learn from "If This Then That" (IFTTT) – Nice post from Nick Charney on ifttt – which I wrote about the other day
Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People – "Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People"
Don’t forget about ePetitions – they can be part of a more collaborative future – "There is a massive cultural resonance to a democratic mechanism like petitioning – maybe we could think about using this cultural resonance and familiarity in a more innovative and open way."
Is regular door knocking a must for councillors? – "(An alternative title for this entry could be, ‘If I go looking for problems, I’m bound to find some’.)"

Bookmarks for January 27th through February 19th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Big Society – if the price is right – Interesting views on Big Society from a blogging councillor within my local district.
The impact of IT decisions on organizational culture – O’Reilly Radar – "It's said that with great power comes great responsibility. Among business functions, the IT group has disproportionate control over what can and can't happen in an organization."
Have your say – Code of recommended practice for local authorities – DCLG's online consultation discussing how data should be made available by councils.
Thriving too: Big Society: Community Organising – Why? – Great post on the role of the community organiser
Around the Local Government World in Ten Days – Nice writeup of a bunch of interesting events and meetings by Carrie
Local engagement in the land of big sky and sausages – Great blog post picking up my 'place as open source system' idea by @jiiiii
Are you social or anti-social? – Interesting, challenging stuff from @joannejacobs
What does ‘cloud’ mean for the public sector? – Nice post written by @lesteph for Huddle summing up our webinar chat about cloud in government.
Coté’s People Over Process » The US Federal Government and Open Source – Really interesting overview from @cote
5 Things we learned from UK GovCamp 11 | Delib Blog – Nice summary from the guys at Delib!

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.