I went a library orientated day with work this week, so maybe libraries are on my mind.  You may have seen this story in the news earlier in the week.  Author Iain Sinclair started a debate about free speech in libraries after Hackney Council banned him from launching his book at their library because he [...]

Today is an International Blogger Action Day on Poverty.  The great thing about his is that it can really get a disscussion going.  The bad news is, someone has almost certainly written the blog post you want to write already.  A good example of this is Neville Hobson’s post this morning about how technology has [...]

In my last post about Simon Wakeman’s blog I mentioned Community Safety.  Then, as I plodded through my RSS Feed I came across DaveFleet’s idea about Hyper-Local Twitter accounts.  Why shouldn’t a council break it’s news down by neighbourhood and feed it out through a Twitter account?  Additionally, as Twitter doesn’t do SMS in the [...]

Simon Wakeman has blogged some really interesting stats around social media in local authority communications.  He does a sound analysis of them, so I want bother re-inventing the wheel, but I do want to add a few points. Simon makes an important point that councils are trying to reach a broad range of people, so [...]

There was a bit of good news for Web 2.0 enthusiasts in the MJ this week, with a two page spread on innovation (see the “How Innovative Is Your Council” post) and an article on the use of social networking.  Refreshingly, the Facebook article was written by a facebook user, meaning it looked at the [...]

“A Decade In Innovation” is the dramatic title of Robin Hambleton and Andrew Holder’s two page spread in this weeks MJ.  The article looks at innovation over the past ten years and, while no direct mention is made of social media, it talks of a former MJ piece that categorised local authorities as the following, [...]

Last week’s Education Guardian had a number of articles around lifelong learning, which were in a supplement written in association with NIACE. The whole supplement is worth reading, but, in particular, the articles about poverty and qualifications and the BECTA comment about ICT and learning caught my eye. What was missing, for me, was the [...]