When I wrote this post, it was as is shown below the dashes below. However, the first comment here was from LouLouK at Blackburn & Darwen Council, just up the road from me, who pointed out that some councils have got it right. I need to be clear that a lot of good work is [...]

Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of spending the day with an inspirational group of people at UK GovCamp 2010.  UKGovCamps, for those who missed it, are informal “un-conference” get togethers of people with a passion for public sector technology and/or social media.  This one took place at the, frankly, inspirational offices of Google in [...]

When I posted my last post this morning, I had a great response.  However, it wasn’t just the response I noticed, but the number of others who sent me their blog posts on the subject. So, I’ve put a list here together of all the posts I’ve found on the subject, so that this can [...]

This my first blog post for 2010, but I’m not looking to the future – instead I’m returning to the past. Not too long ago I did a post about how Twitter and other social media being used in emergency situations.  Now, I don’t claim that millions of people in local government read this blog, [...]