An online notebook
Those who attended, or would have liked to have done, the Google event last week might be interested in a new group we have set up: http://groups.google.com/group/googlelocalgov To talk about how local government can use Google tools. Though this isn’t an official Google space, it will have Google folk as members who will be able … Keep reading
The second Wednesday guest post! Thanks to Sarah for this great post – if you’d like to contribute, just email me – and being called Sarah isn’t necessarily a requirement! Online communication isn’t always taken seriously. It’s a nice to have on top of offline work or something organisations have been told to do. It … Keep reading
I put a tweet out last week pointing people to a new domain, www.localgovweb.com, asking people to complete the form it contained. I asked for people’s: Blog addresses and whether they would like their posts to appear in an aggregated list Twitter names and whether they would like their tweets aggregated with everyone else’s Whether … Keep reading
Here’s a list of some of the coverage of Friday’s event… I’ll keep it updated with everything I come across: Ingrid Koehler: Despite all the slickness and the fabulous hospitality, the day was kind of a near miss. Google knows there’s money in the public sector (maybe less than there has been, but still a … Keep reading
From Google’s LocalGov event today, Alex Nurenberg talked us through the steps you can take to make sure your website works – in other words that visitors find what they want quickly, especially when they come in via a search engine or advert. Bring me to the right page Make your homepage useful Help me … Keep reading