Helpful links I’ve spotted on the web over the past couple of weeks, these are mainly focused on how to make social media work for you, with a bit here and there on culture change inside organisations with a tech emphasis. 10 Rules for Radicals via @countculture – video on how to make change happen [...]
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via rbkc.gov.uk Kensington and Chelsea have joined the growing number of councils that are exposing their expenditure data. Although there are only 20ish so far, that number is getting bigger all the time, so much so that I’ve made the decision that I’m no longer going to feature councils that just publish expenditure data in [...]
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January is only a heart beat away and with the rapidly advancing requirement to publish expenditure data (and contracts) online. Many councils are already making a start at publishing the information. You can see the Openly Local data scoreboard, CLG is also keeping track and the LG Group is in the process of identifying all [...]
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View on screencast.com » via screencast.com This mirrors my special transatlantic relationship. But sometimes these Brits can be tricky and pretend that they don’t know that we know best. Yes, I’m looking at YOU, dear husband. Posted via email from Ingrid’s posterous
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Hurrah! I just published my 100th example of social media use in local government. I’ve been collecting examples of social media use in local government for probably a year and a half. I published a slide deck of examples using slide share last year. And although it got tons of views showing that people wanted [...]
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via flickr.com It seems like we’re miles away from an election right now, but the next local polling in England might just be the social media election we didn’t quite get in May. Stephanie Noble describes a local election in Newark, New Jersey and the role that social media played in getting an ‘underfunded’, underdog [...]
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via danslee.wordpress.com Dan Slee has blogged about how Walsall Council has used Flickr and its local community to spruce up its web pages. He has step by step information about what they did and what kind of things you need to consider as well as other helpful links. If you’re proud of your area and [...]
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The LG Group recently wrote to heads of comms, policy/performance and finance to explain a little bit about the LG Transparency programme and to identify local authority leads for open data. So if you’re the lead (or know someone who is), be sure to get in touch. You can see the full text of the [...]
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As a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, I receive a monthly magazine called The Garden. It’s full of horticultural wisdom and a fantastic letters page. A couple of years ago, there was a strongly worded letter condemning the ‘free for all’ that botanical gardens have become. Instead of places for quiet contemplation and the [...]
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via flickr.com As far as I can tell, Aberdeen City Council is the first Scottish council to release open data. They’ve released councillors’ allowances and leisure facilities as machine readable data. (CSV) A good place to start. The first is about democracy and transparency and the second kind of data release leads to the development [...]
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