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According to the Economist, the Conservative party's Euroscepticism is "frightening". It might frighten the sort of people who write for the Economist, but not the folk I was talking to here in Essex this morning. They've had enough of the grand EU project foisted on them by politicians and diplomats. They're... [read more]
A week in politics can be a long time and the once commencing 22nd March 2010 was no exception! Tuesday saw the PM’s speech about the semantic web and Mygov. Wednesday brought the budget with the cuts to jobs and spending afforded by the various efficiency savings. Thursday brought the Total Place report being... [read more]
LibDem MP Lynne Featherstone is the party's lead on web stuff and so she should be - she's had a blog since 2003 and has fed it practically everyday since. Lynne even credits her election victory to her strong online presence and use of it as an organising tool.When she came to updating her website she chose Simon Dickson of Puffbox, the... [read more]
One of my biggest inspirations, Tom Steinberg, has a post up about governments trying to duplicate the fantastic services that mySociety built, but failing miserably. I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, I'm really pleased to see government trying to build services that are useful to citizens. On the other, I'm disappointed that... [read more]
I’ve just finished presenting to the Local Government Chronicle social media conference on social media relations in public sector communications. Here are the slides from my presentation: If you need to download the slides, you can do so here. Link to original post [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]
Cameron's speech today about cutting the cost of politics was great - and in line with what he said in Milton Keynes. We get really poor value for money from those in SW1 and all the over-paid quangocrats. Cameron today proposed: Every quango having to justify it existence - hopefully it'll be the legislature... [read more]
I’ve been looking around at quite a few emerging ideas and practise for public engagement recently. At the moment consultation processes in local government are generally still fairly archaic and ‘having your say’ might mean filling out a survey or attending a public meeting, exhibition or focus group. The Power of Information report... [read more]
This is Anselme Noumbiwa. He's a Cameroonian who fled his country for the UK in 2006 because on the death of his father, the village Chief, he was expected to 'marry' his father's wives.When he would not adhere to tribal traditions the village elders tortured him. Although the Home Office believed him they did not accept the... [read more]
There was all sorts of excitement yesterday with the news that yet another Council has reacted to the fact that some of their staff spend some of their time using social networks. This from Arun on LocalGov.co.uk: Staff at Portsmouth City Council have been banned from using social networking sites after a local paper investigation... [read more]
Peter Barton, who heads up Lincolnshire's web team, is one of the most experienced local government (LG) webbies around and also a great thinker. We have chimed very often on his usual hang-out, the Public Sector Forums Bulletin Board.A new post of his hits all my sweet spots by describing the issues with where web teams currently sit in... [read more]
Just completed a mass update to the Public Sector Bloggers website and feed which was initiated by Dave Briggs and tidied up by Steph Gray.I used those signed up to @PubSecBloggers as well as my egov links in my blog's right column, which now needs an overhaul as a lot of sites/blogs are effectively defunked, to compile the additions.... [read more]
eGovernment Register reports today on 'social media' use in local councils (LAs), noting that work by Liz Azyan published on her blog at LGEOResearch.com shows it at: Number % of LAs Facebook 48 11% Twitter 128 30% YouTube 63 15% RSS 122 28% Web dev blogs/feeds 6 1% Now I would argue that RSS is a bit... [read more]
Much has been said about the role of British and Scottish government ministers in the decision to release the Lockerbie terrorist. But what about the role of our Foreign Office? It now seems certain that our diplomats have been manoeuvring towards some sort of deal over al Megrahi for months – if not years... [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 »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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