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 what they can do with the data, using a single common licence to reduce confusion … Keep reading

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 http://localgov.pbwiki.com/ – please visit and add any bits you can think of. If you need the password, it’s mentioned a couple of times on the home page.

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 Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice, the developer of the local government search … Keep reading