CommunitiesUK to continue tweeting?
Interestingly, it looks like the experiment with Twitter that DCLG have been undertaking as part of the Communities in Control digital participation drive might continue beyond the initial period. Great news.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
More DIUS innovation
Another bit of top notch, innovative digital participation work has come out of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and again it is WordPress magic. This time though, there are all sorts of different bits built into it. Steph…
Councils respond to Communities in Control
The Local Government Association has responded to the white paper Communities in Control on behalf of local authorities across the country. They are clearly anxious about finances: Councils will work with the Government to ensure that any additional responsibilities that…
A GovWeb group blog?
There has been quite a lot of interest in the Public Sector Bloggers site I set up recently (and which I really must get around to updating soon), which has been very gratifying. One of the issues with it –…
Quick picks from Communities in Control
Just had a chance to have a run through the executive summary of the white paper Communities in Control, published today by the department for Communities and Local Government, with a highlighter pen and picked out a few juicy bits.…
Rebooting America
The Personal Democracy Forum has published a free eBook called Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age. It’s full of great little essays by such luminaries as David Weinberger, Clay Shirky, Howard Rheingold and Jeff Jarvis.…
Communities in ‘Control’? Meh.
On the day that the results of a poll in London reveal that, while one in four Londoners would like to be a local politician, hardly anyone knows anything about them or what they do, Hazel Blears has a piece…
On consultation
On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be invited to Number 11 for a few drinks with various online luminaries, including a bunch of guys who went on Web Mission 08 and lots of lovely government webbies too, courtesy…
A New Civil Servant Blogger
In what is, as far as I am aware, the first instance of civil servant starting a blog because the new guidelines freed him up to do so, Mark O’Neill of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has begun…
CivicSurf Trailer
Shane has posted up a one minute trailer of the CivicSurf film on the project blog. [HTML1] It’s a nice taster of what is a great film (which I was lucky enough to see in full at the recent evoice…