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Posted by IngridK on July 14, 2011
Today I spoke at a SOCITM conference on Building Perfect Council Wesbsites. The title’s a bit funny, I think. Perfection is an impossible goal. But the great thing about the web is that you can keep on perfecting. Maybe they should have called the event building better and even better websites, but I suppose that [...]
Categories: customer insight, data, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: bpcw11, conference, event, gov2.0, local government, localgov, open data, presentation, social media, socitm, websites | 
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Posted by IngridK on June 28, 2011
This Friday Local DirectGov will be hosting the Really Useful Data event (1 July 2011) at the Department for Communities and Local Government in Central London. The event has just sold out – but you can still shape the day! UPDATE: A few additional tickets have JUST been made available. Sign up now. Or find [...]
Categories: data, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: #ru2011, data, DCLG, gov2.0, local directgov, localgov, open data, open government | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 19, 2011
Hack days are proliferating. These are collaborative events designed to turn open data into useful things. Getting a bunch of developer talent into a room and writing some code which will deliver a working prototype by the end of a day or two-days. They may be attached two a wider event, like Local by Social [...]
Categories: data, tech geekery |
Tags: #ru2011, CLG, data, event, hack, hack day, local directgov, local government, localgov, localgovcamp, open data | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 15, 2011
Is this the Summer of Social?? How have you been using social media in local public services? Submit your example here or take a look at what other people are doing. Moving on, need help now! Ok, I’m off to pastures new! If you haven’t already seen my announcement, take a gander at what I’ll [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, data, socialmedia |
Tags: facebook, gov2.0, hack day, localgov, localgovcamp, open data, practice, roundup, social media, twitter, update | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on February 22, 2011
The Big News Yesterday the Making a Difference With Data site launched at madwdata.org.uk . This is an exciting initiative which is helping practitioners, councillors and active citizens alike to publish and use data more effectively. It covers the local authority (transparency and democracy), education, health and social care, housing, roads and transport and police [...]
Categories: data, tech geekery, Uncategorized |
Tags: data, lbys, local by social, madwd, open data, transparency | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on January 13, 2011
Open Data community roundup The Local Open Data Community is an open community on LG Improvement and Development’s Communities of Practice site. Publishing open data The deadline to publish open data on expenditure is fast approaching. Check out the LG Group revised guidance on expenditure and senior salaries at lgtransparency.readandcomment.com and a huge thanks again [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, data |
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Posted by IngridK on December 15, 2010
New transparency guides and two cool events on using data and information for better accountability and public services.
Categories: customer insight, data, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on November 19, 2010
via flickr.com I spent the day at the Open Government Data Camp, an international expo of open governmnt data. One of the people I met there was Dominic Byrne from Fingal County Council where they’ve just done a big release of local government data in accessible formats at http://data.fingal.ie/. I think he said it was [...]
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Posted by IngridK on October 26, 2010
I once attended a conference on community engagement that was distinctly unengaging. Held in the windowless basement of a central London hotel, I was shocked by the dreariness of it all. The people on either side of me at the table were more interesting than all of the speakers, bar one. It wasn’t that some [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, data, innovation, socialmedia |
Tags: barcamp, CoP, lbys, local by social, localgovcamp, unconference | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on October 21, 2010
Yesterday, I closed the comments and added a post to the LG Transparency guides to publishing spend and salaries data openly. We took a different approach to consultation than we usually do – normally we email people documents, use a reference group or if we’re being really open we consult through a community of practice [...]
Categories: community engagement, data, innovation, socialmedia |
Tags: consultation, guidance, guide, lbys, local by social, neighbourhoods, open data, social media, transparency | No Comments »
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