An online notebook
An online notebook
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…
Effective Social Media & Web 2.0 Strategies for Local Authorities is a new event from Public Sector Forums, happening at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester on 30 April 2009. I have the pleasure of chairing the event, as well as giving…
Cambridgeshire County Council have put up some videos on their YouTube channel from the leaders of the three main political groups on the Council. The aim of the videos are to encourage people to put themselves forward to become councillors.…
I wrote a little while ago about how council’s websites might look, and ventured the idea that perhaps all that is needed is a big search box. Look what Cheltenham Borough Council have got now! OK, so it isn’t the…
Simon Wakeman has a thought-provoking post on whether Councils should maintain corporate presences in social networking sites like Facebook at all: People using social networks befriend (or fan, whatever the appropriate phrase is) organisations, movements, clubs etc on Facebook and…
A few things have been happening behind the scenes, and I think it is about time that LocalGovCamp was ‘officially’ launched in some way. I guess this is it. The event will probably take place in June, probably in Birmingham…
A tweet from the Public Sector Forums Twitter feed alerted me to this story of Stockport Council’s Facebook presence, which, at the time the article was written, wasn’t particularly popular: A LOCAL authority which reached out to the Facebook generation…
Cambridge City Council’s Visit Cambridge tourism site has been hacked, with various unsavoury pictures and links added, reports the Cambridge News: CAMBRIDGE’S official tourism website was still offline today after pornographic images were posted in place of pictures of the…
Simon Wakeman presents a nice roundup of some of the new websites being launched, comparing Barnet and Cheltenham‘s latest efforts with the current poster-child, Redbridge. Generating an environment for residents to interact online with their councils will generate more engagement…
Image credit: tricky Tidying up a few bits on the IDeA Performance site, and seeing Steven Tuck’s comment on my previous post about it, I thought about how these techniques could be used in different situations within local government. After…