An online notebook
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 a public sector body providing services to local residents needs a website to help them … Keep reading
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
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.
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. Or other human being for that matter. Some people just don’t like Twitter, and that’s … Keep reading
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] [HTML2]