This post has been  a long time coming, but that’s probably a good thing.  Way back in the summer, we had an interesting debate at work which spilled out onto Twitter with some great results.  It was called “The Comms Question” and was looking at the issues related to communicating via social media. Here’s some examples of the [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a while.  Partly, because I’ve been busy with work, the Worth Valley Social Media Circle and I’ve been contributing to various debates on LinkedIn. Recently, I took part in a debate on LinkedIn about public consultation.  The original question was around what one could do with the “I don’t know brigade”, the people [...]

This post is somewhat of a first for me.  While I work with Scott on a daily basis and we sit at opposite desks, we’ve never put our heads together to write a blog post before.  However, recently our office banter has touched on the subject of blogs (well, only some of it has, let’s [...]

I’ve tried very hard to keep this blog a-political and this post is no exception.  However, as a former constituent of David Wright MP and a strong advocate of political use of social media, I felt it was important I put out a blog regarding the news story about the “Scum sucking pigs” comment that [...]

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, [...]

About six months ago I realised I wasn’t using Twitter or Facebook effectively. For a start, I was using them in exactly the same way. Every TWEET I sent became a status update and my networks were the same. Friends that were non-work related aor non-twitter usesrs became confused by some my my tweets. So, [...]

I saw this news story today from Neville Hobson‘s (@jangles) Twitterfeed. I’ll let you do the reading, but, in a nutshell, it’s the report of a study that suggests young people could be damaged, emotionally, by using Twitter.  The reason being that we can process negative stories much faster than positive ones, leaving us with [...]