An online notebook
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An online notebook
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…
Here are the slides from my talk at Public Sector Forums in Birmingham yesterday. Hopefully they make some kind of sense… Engagement through social networking View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: psf) It was an interesting day and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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]…
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…
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…