An online notebook
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! Remarkable stuff. As I wrote, quite a while ago now, it’s tricky to use Facebook … Keep reading
The UK govcamp event is happening on the 23rd January. Everyone should have had an email who has a ticket to come – if you think you ought to have had something, but haven’t, please let me know! It’s an unconference, so if you are coming, please do come prepared to talk about something. Discussions … Keep reading
Government 2010 looks like it will be a lot of fun. It’s a conference about the future of government: Government 2010 is about improved government communications and more rapid delivery of services to citizens via the web, and web-enabled channels. It also features some people I really respect on the speaker list: Tom Watson Harry … 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
I wrote a little while ago about how council’s websites might look, and ventured the idea that perhaps all that is needed is a big search box. Look what Cheltenham Borough Council have got now! OK, so it isn’t the home page, but it has extra use as it searches other local sites too. Great … Keep reading