LG Improvement and Development runs a series of training courses for councillors called Leadership Academy. Some of the stuff on the course is always offered, but councillors can also choose optional modules – including stuff on being a better communicator, dealing with the media or enhancing your online profile. I was asked to present on [...]
Categories: councillors, socialmedia |
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Es9tWXZgw&hl=en&fs=1] via youtube.com Here’s a fun social media example for a Friday. The City of Toronto lets its residents know how to recycle old electronic equipment in style (maybe not good style, but that’s in the eye of the viewer). It’s entertaining, informative and it made me want to search my house for unwanted electronic [...]
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Charlotte Hayes is now working with the Knowledge Hub – she was the gal behind the scenes at the London LocalGovCamp who made sure the bills got paid and people had name tags and stuff. She’s doing weekly roundups of online collaboration communities – Knowledge Hub, social media and Local Open Data. I’m gonna get [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice |
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If you have business in London, you’ll be painfully aware that there’s industrial action on the Underground today. Fortunately and entirely coincidentally, I’d already planned to work at home today. Since, I’m not trudging around Central London – in the rain – today, I was able to see a cool new use of some open [...]
Categories: data, innovation, socialmedia |
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via flickr.com The LGA has just released a report on how councils are using tech to save millions. It features a number of examples on how geo-spatial data has been packaged up in apps to help local people access services more conveniently and save money. Whether it’s bin men working smarter, fewer phone calls to [...]
Categories: data |
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As a follow up to last week’s social media community roundup, CityCamp London tickets are now available, but who knows for how long. Get ‘em while you can. CityCamp London From the FutureGov blog: We have a stella line up waiting for you on the Friday at the Stimulate session (with more to be announced [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, innovation, socialmedia |
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The boy, all of sudden, has decided that he wants to go to the beach. And since this is an island, a beach isn’t too far away. But it could take an hour and a half or even longer if the traffic is bad. And all the nearest beaches are pebble beaches. Which suck. -0- [...]
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Lots of great conversations, content, events and more in August. The big news: LocalGov2.0 hits 100. I’ve been collecting social media in local government case studies and publishing them to the LocalGov2.0 blog since January. I recently added the 100th example and several of these have come from the community of practice. And I’ve also [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, socialmedia |
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via cllrandrewwallis.blogspot.com Most of the examples in my LocalGov2.0 example blog have been about the institutional use of social media or open data in local government. But there are at least as many examples of councillors who are using social media to engage with local people, and I’ve decided that I’m going to start featuring [...]
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