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An online notebook
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…
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…