Posts belonging to Category socialmedia
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 25, 2011
This week I took my son to Deen City Farm. It’s one of a small number of city farms spread across London, helping little kids tell the difference between a sheep, a cow and an alpaca. I jest a little, because I’m a country girl. But I remember taking a university friend from Philadelphia up [...]
Categories: appeals and campaigns, Family fun, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: campaign, communications, cuts, Deen City Farm, facebook, marketing, Merton, social media, twitter, Wimbledon | 5 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 20, 2011
Measuring the effectiveness of your social media effort: Or answering the really tough questions from people who are a little bit nervous about social media. At the recent LocalGovCamp, I was asked to present a session on performance management for social media. This is a little like performance managing telephone use. Yes, you can measure [...]
Categories: performance management, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: communications, localgov, localgovcamp, measurement, media, objectives, performance management, ROI, social media, social value | 1 Comment »
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 April 6, 2011
A week is a long time in social media. A year is an eternity. Yet I still pretty much stand by what I wrote in Connected Councillors: a guide to using social media to support local leadership, which was published just over a year ago. So why do it over again? Well… things have changed [...]
Categories: community engagement, councillors, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: 21stcc, cllrsocmed, councillors, gov2.0, guidance, lbys, lgovsm, local by social, local government, social media | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 17, 2011
Using online tools to turn protest into solution.
Categories: appeals and campaigns, current events commentary, socialmedia, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on January 2, 2011
Thirty-five ideas for public sector blogging.
Categories: socialmedia, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on December 30, 2010
Five predictions for open local government in 2011 that I really hope don’t come true.
Categories: musings, socialmedia, tech geekery, Uncategorized |
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Posted by IngridK on November 17, 2010
Coming off a week of the Local by Social online conference, we rolled straight into the first Local by Social regional event. It wasn’t just hosted by Coventry council, it was hosted by the good people of Wood End – an estate in the North East of Coventry – its reputation described by its own [...]
Categories: socialmedia |
Tags: Coventry, lbys, LbySMids, local by social, Midlands, social media | No Comments »
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