British government tells civil servants to tweet – publishes guidelines (!!!)
Twitter in UK Government
Good piece on MEDIASHIFT re public officials on Twitter
Sorry if this was already posted. Mark Hannah has a nice piece on MEDIASHIFT about how public officials are using Twitter. He wonders if “our elected officials (are) using Twitter to get around the traditional media filter and communicate directly with their constituents?”, to which I would say, “Of course they are.” That’s the point.Read… Read more »
Is The Search of Municipal Websites Not Working?
I have a unique sort of view on municipal websites. So I not always sure that I am a fair customer as I view 250+ cities at any one time. But I do have a chance to compare lots of things with websites that have very common websites. With that said I started doing designRead… Read more »
survey of Parks Menu items (or proof that I need a personal life)
Number Of Occurances after surveying 250 Municipal Websites this was the Occurrence of of each menu title. menu items hits parks 160 special events 120 Aquatics 100 Golf 90 Facilities 89 special gardens 89 about 88 board 87 trails 85 rentals 84 recreation 83 Activity Guide 69 pools 69 camps 69 sports 68 Golf CoursesRead… Read more »
Top 49 “best” Park and Rec Municipal Websites (with Details and Scoring)
I am in a project to re-design a city website and as city websites age there is starting to a a common vocabulary that surfaces. Common missions also bring up common tasks and functions that a website would have to handle. This part of the study was for city Facilities that are open to theRead… Read more »
Real City Planning
Real city planning isn’t complicated. Real city planning doesn’t have to involve laws or regulations. Real city planning doesn’t need a degree or important people. Real city planning is you. You, your vision, your attitude for your community. The single greatest force in any community is the will of its people. Complacency, spirit de corps,Read… Read more »
Help Gov’t Conserve Energy
On a single day this summer, the federal government can dramatically slash its energy consumption costs with the flick of a switch. To do so, government needs your help. On August 27, 2009, government and industry will join together for the second year to make a change for the better with “Power IT Down Day.”Read… Read more »
Government 2.0 Policy Analysis Exercise
This post originally appeared in my blog http://wethegoverati.wordpress.com Every year, second year Master of Public Policy students must complete a Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) as a part of their degree. The project is an analytic and consultative professional product developed for a real-world client by Masters in Public Policy candidates under Harvard Kennedy School facultyRead… Read more »
Linking for the web (training for content providers) draft material
It is common for people to use the term “click here” to get the user to do some action. This is hurts our website. Why does click here hurt our website. Google indexs our site meaning that it reads every bit of code and ranks that code for importance. The most important thing for googleRead… Read more »
Writing for the web (train for content providers) draft material
Writing for the Web Introduction — In writting for the city of richmond website we are trying to accomplish 2 goals. the first goal is to the a reliable source of current information about the operations, interactions and demographic of the City of Richmond. The second goal is to push current projects and inspire citizenRead… Read more »