Image by zachstern via Flickr Jack Pickard has a great post about policy on council staff blogging, which is sparked by Cambridgeshire making their Social Network and Blogging Policy publicly available. He notes that it is mercifully brief and written in plain English but points out that the bit which relates back to the council’sRead… Read more »
Image by jdlasica via Flickr The immensely influential Arianna Huffington has decided to launch her own version of the 12 year old Webbys Awards (which are kindof like the web’s answer to the Oscars, complete with star-studded red carpet). The HuffPost Game Changers awards [are] to honor and celebrate 100 people who are using newRead… Read more »
GovLoopers may have noticed that today’s number 2 trending topic on Twitter is #welovetheNHS. GovLoopers may also wonder what’s brought this on! Today saw a series of articles in the UK press about the use of the NHS in the US health care debate. See: º America’s right turns its fire on the NHS, fromRead… Read more »
Twitpic Ross L Grant Google UK launched it’s local government division on Friday August 8 with a day-long event held at their London offices and attended by around 65 people. As I have been talking and writing about their stuff (aka promoting!) for a few years now this day was pretty exciting for me. IRead… Read more »
Image via Wikipedia The House of Lords shows itself – again – to be the most thoughtful and progressive chamber in a new report ‘Are the Lords listening? Creating connections between people and Parliament’ from its Information Committee. Parliament has some really daft rules against use of video of proceedings, which it has been extremelyRead… Read more »
Not only do we have a crashing website. Not only do we have a phone line four months late. We also have an #fail for how most people will seek information about swineflu online – search. Mate Jack reports that he is #1 in Google result for ‘have I got cold or swine flu’. AlthoughRead… Read more »
Image by brothergrimm via Flickr The Tories (UK Conservative Party) are very reluctant to spell out much about the policies this far in advance of a likely general election. As a result they keep sending out mixed signals on what they will actually do if elected, which are usually not picked up in the press.Read… Read more »
Socitm held its annual ‘Building perfect council websites’ event this week at Olympia, London. Must have been over 200 people there and a very interesting line-up of contributors. I took my Flip camera along and managed to grab a couple of people for short interviews. Kingston upon Thames councillor (and former Mayor) Mary Reid isRead… Read more »
On LGBT Asylum News I recently added a Google Translation widget. I’ve just got my first feedback on it and it’s good, apparently it’s a useful add-on! The widget is from madtomato and shows flags for six languages. You click and it sends you to Google Translate, where you can pick another language. It’s notRead… Read more »
Using Twitterfeed I’ve set up a new Twitter account which will be updating with new posts from UK Public Sector Bloggers. These are the bloggers which are on the page which Dave Briggs set up last year. He says: The bloggers I have used so far aren’t just civil servants, or local government officers, butRead… Read more »