Dave @ PSF
I’m going to be talking to a bunch of public sector folk on Thursday as part of a Public Sector Forums event entitled Public Sector Websites – Essential Issues for Managers, Developers and Others. It should be a good day…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Do councils need a website at all?
Simon Wakeman poses a potentially controversial question on his blog: One idea that’s been playing on my mind for the past few days is whether a council needs a website at all. Initially this might seem like complete heresy. Surely…
Unlocking the Power of Local Government Information
The Power of Information Taskforce has shared some great advice on their blog for local authorities to help them share their data with people who want to do interesting stuff with it. It includes making it clear to folk exactly…
Cool Local Gov Web Stuff
I have started a wiki to collect together resources and stories of where local government has used the web in interesting ways. You can find it at – please visit and add any bits you can think of. If…
Building networks in Twitter
Neil Williams has a nice post about the way he has built up his network using Twitter: Twitter, the micro-blogging site to rule them all, has introduced me to more relevant contacts more quickly than any other web 2.0 tool.…
CivicSurf video now online
Shane has posted at CivicSurf the two parts of the online video version of the CivicSurf video, which I have included below, too. Why not email and ask for some actual DVDs you could show to your local councillors? [HTML1]…
How councils can get started with social media
A sunday morning tweet from Tom Watson set my mind racing this morning: Which is a very interesting question, not least for me as I have a considerable interest in loca government’s use of social media, as facilitator of the…
Stratford Bin Calendar
Not the most enticing of titles, possibly, but Stratford-on-Avon Council have launched a neat new service allowing people to easily look up when their bins should be collected (strikes permitting, of course) without the need for scanning long tables of…
More local gov twittering
A bit of a dig about reveals that Stratford isn’t the only local authority on Twitter… There’s also: St Helens Southend Barnet Hillingdon Anyone know any others?
Local government on Twitter!
I’m delighted to note that Stratford-on-Avon District Council has its own account on Twitter. What is even better is that they display the badge on their homepage! This is just the sort of intiative that we’re looking for in various…