It was great to spend Tuesday this week at CommsCamp 2013, the event for public sector communications folk organised by Ann Kempster, Darren Caveney and Dan Slee. Last week - at about this sort of time on a Friday, actually - I noted down a few thoughts on what I'd like to talk about when I ...
I am a big fan of epetitions – I think they have the potential to be a simple and elegant way of plugging citizen concerns into the policy cycle and to open up the agenda-setting process to include citizen-led issues in a more constructive way than through a media storm, which is really the only ...
It’s almost obligatory to write something about the new Localism Bill – after all it's going to have a huge effect on the world of local government - and I suppose the real question is exactly how local is it? Before saying anything else, I have to agree with Anthony from DemSoc who blogged about exactly ...
We've been busy customising our ePetition product for local authorities across the country in order to meet the 15th December deadline set by the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. In total, we now have 30 different authorities using the Public-i ePetitions system. I'd like to say a big thanks to those involved here - ...