Cloud computing during a catastrophe
It often amuses people when they learn I was once a Risk Manager at a County Council. I have no idea why. One of my roles at the time was to look after business continuity arrangements – in other words,…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Bookmarks for March 16th through March 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. comment.ofqual.gov.uk – Lovely commentable document style consultations from Ofqual MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy – Institute for Government – "Influencing behaviour through public policy explores how behaviour change theory…
Bookmarks for March 8th through March 13th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Roundup: Social Media Monitoring Tools – WebWorkerDaily – Useful list of dashboard-like monitoring tools. It is not about our App, It is about the User’s Data and Context | Zoho…
LocalGovCamp London
Thursday’s LocalGovCamp in London was superbly organised by Anke Holst and her team. I was involved in one session, which was to by about internet culture and whether that’s the interesting thing local government ought to be taking on board,…
Join the public sector learning community
Learning Pool’s annual conference is on 12th May, in London, and it promises to be a really great day. You can have a sneak peak of the agenda here (PDF warning). One of the speakers I am really looking forward…
LocalGovCamp for project managers
A localgovcamp event for project and programme managers is taking place at Cheltenham Borough Council on April 27th, organised by Jon Hyde. You can find out all you need to know on the event Ning site, or on the Community…
See, local gov *can* do Facebook
One of the highlights of last Wednesday’s LGComms event was hearing about Coventry City Council‘s Facebook page. If you click to see the larger image, you’ll notice that the page has 11,321 fans (as at the time of writing). 11,321!…
On leadership
Light blogging recently, mainly because I’ve been busy talking to people and haven’t had much spare time to write here. Apologies. One of those talky things was at the Cllr 10 event, organised by the Local Government Innovation Unit, expertly…
Moronic reporting of non issues
Take a look at this story, excitingly titled on the BBC News site “Council Twitter users face rebuke“. Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority’s standards committee for using social networking sites. The trouble is, no they’re…
The biggest mistake councils made with online engagement
It’s frequently costly. It almost always achieves little. It lets people tick the “use the internet to engage with the public” box without actually achieving much. I am, of course, talking about webcasting council meetings. The idea has honourable roots.…