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I haven’t blogged for a while now and that isn’t because I don’t have anything to say, in fact the opposite. I have so many things in my head it’s about knowing what to get down first really. So apologies for the long post…I won’t take offence if you don’t read on… My new role is very interesting and also very busy, which also... [read more]
It’s quite mad to think that there wasn’t a Flickr group for local government. Snow ploughs? Yes. There’s two groups. There’s more you can shake a stick at for libraries and museums but there was nothing for the overall umbrella institution of local government. So, after a bit of messing about there’s now the Local Government Does... [read more]
Michelle Garder, Pam Broviak, Bill Greeves and I have just published a paper in the Journal of Virtual World Research. Here is the abstract and link to the pdf file: The virtual world Second Life allows social interactions among avatars – online representations of real-life people – and is slowly adopted in the public sector as a... [read more]
Amazingly, there are two and a half times as many people in the UK registered on Facebook than buy a daily paper. That’s a 29 million versus 12 million split. Even more astonishing is how poor local government is at connecting with its residents and what meagre resources it devotes to it.It’s an after thought when it should be... [read more]
Last Friday, a new policy paper by Peter Levine was released entitled: "Civic Engagement and Community Information: Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication". [read more]
Local governments are continuously needing to help people with a different culture. Here's some interesting newly compiled data from the Census Bureau, along with some thoughts on how to better engage the Hispanic population. [read more]
Ideas are beautiful has been designed as a website to help highlight local issues and co-design potential solutions. The interface breaks down the ‘Challenges’ posed by users into a number of simple categories, but also displays these challenges on a map, which illustrates what is most concerning people in your location. There is... [read more]
How can local governments use social media to reach the Hispanic community? [read more]
I have been thinking a lot recently about the future of local government not just because I work in local government but because I am really interested in how we (all local government people) are going to tackle the pressures and financial constraints put upon us. In some ways I am relishing the challenges ahead as it will only lead to... [read more]
Rob Whiteman is the new managing director of the IDeA – The improvement and Development Agency for Local Government. He recently addressed the Learning Pool Public Sector Learning Conference with a keynote presentation on the The importance of collaboration in 21st century government. (Video and slideshow available below) To... [read more]
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting myself acquainted with my new Job at Camden Council and learning the ropes. I’ve been brought in to work on Camden’s new website redesign project. For the past few months, I’ve not only learnt a lot about why and how the website works but also understand how much work and research goes into... [read more]
There are a lot of really good, really valid reasons why local government is not always an early adopter when it comes to new technology, like social media. Local government is plenty busy with a lot of other things. Local government has to be careful with public money, so it’s reasonable to take a wait and see attitude…to a point... [read more]
After the kerfuffle over the Birmingham City Council website, as expertly documented by Paul Canning, there has been a considerable amount of discussion about what a Council website should look like, and what it should actually do. This isn’t just an academic debate, as some local authorities have been making some really innovative... [read more]
The fallout from the relaunch of Birmingham City council's website (#bccwebsite) has continued, not just online but in the local press as well thanks to the strong interest of Birmingham Post Editor Marc Reeves.It's not a coincidence that the Post has a 'web 2.0' site and in its reporting about #bccwebsite has even included comments left... [read more]
A few weeks back I posted about the Google localgov event. My thoughts on whether Councils would adopt cloud computing went something like this: I have no doubt that the migration to the cloud won’t be driven so much by business strategy so much as by social needs and expectations. As time goes by our experiences of computing in our... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
John Kamensky is a Senior Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. More »
Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...