We made the trip up to Woburn Safari Park so that I could pet the wallabies. I’m a big fan of the wallabies. I just want to give them a hug. But they don’t like that kind of thing, but they will let you pet them so long as they’re being distracted by food. We’d [...]
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Tags: lemur, safari, trip, woburn | 
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People are now turning first to the web to find everything from information about days out, entertainment, shopping, to making connections with friends and colleagues. People expect to be able to comment and contribute on everything from online versions of newspapers to items they purchase from online retailers like Amazon. Citizens will increasingly expect that [...]
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This morning I was lucky enough to attend a series of announcements branded Building Britain’s Digital Future in an intimate venue near King’s Cross. I was invited to hear ‘a senior Cabinet minister’ speak…and stories over the weekend led me to believe that it would be the Prime Minister himself. And it was indeed Gordon [...]
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Tags: bbdf, data, digital britain, Gordon Brown, linked data, open data, social media | 4 Comments »
via flickr.com This week I visited the school where I’m a Governor. We got to wander round the classroom, see the kids in action, have a bit of nosy round the facilities. I can’t manage to keep one two year old under control, so I’m amazed by how orderly everything is at the school, even [...]
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There are a lot of really good, really valid reasons why local government is not always an early adopter when it comes to new technology, like social media. Local government is plenty busy with a lot of other things. Local government has to be careful with public money, so it’s reasonable to take a wait [...]
Categories: socialmedia |
Tags: discussion paper, guidance, local by social, local government, social media | No Comments »
First there was this… [slideshare id=2006616&doc=draftideasocialmediastrategy-090916103035-phpapp01] And the development of a largely internally focused strategy about how we can make better use of social media to do the job we do at the IDeA, supporting improvement, innovation and efficiency in local public services. Now there’s this – [slideshare id=3419305&doc=20100312socialmediastrategy-100313032030-phpapp02&type=d] a discussion paper making the link [...]
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Yesterday at the London LocalGovCamp I checked the Twitter stream a time or two and saw that there were a number of calls for case studies and examples of social media uses in local government and use of social media by councillors. I’m glad you asked. A brace of publications: The IDeA and NESTA will [...]
Categories: socialmedia |
Tags: councillors, local government, localgov20, localgovcamp, social media | 1 Comment »
We had a fantastic London LocalGovCamp yesterday. LocalGovCamp is really a series of events across the country – local government unconferences focusing on the use of social media and collaboration in local government (and it’s not all techy – lots of it is about rethinking the way local government works and radical efficiency). For the [...]
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Tags: khub, local government, localgovcamp, social media | 3 Comments »
Charlotte Hayes is the project co-ordinator for my work projects. Yesterday we had a fantastic event London LocalGovCamp (link to my work blog) – the premiere event for those in local government using social media to engage with citizens, communicate messages and help local people do things for themselves. Many people were involved in getting [...]
Categories: appeals and campaigns, tech geekery |
Tags: charity, fund raising, localgovcamp, marathon, work | No Comments »
I’m really glad to see some of my colleagues in the LGA Group taking advantage of the benefits of social media in terms of developing programmes, marketing of course, but also all the benefits of networking and engagement across the local public services sector. The latest to join the fold is Steven Skelton who [...]
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