Yesterday Eric Pickles announced that members of the public who want to report on council meetings will be offered the same privileges enjoyed by accredited press. The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has said that new regulations, to come into force in September, will ensure greater public scrutiny and give bloggers and users of ...
Just more links about things that we think are interesting. This was held over for a week due to extra work so sorry for the delay! Local TV Early last month, Jeremy Hunt announced where licenses for local TV would be available in the UK. This has sparked a lively debate about its whys and wherefores that ...
This blog post is the second edition of an update that I'm now writing for our staff at Public-i. It's a summary of what I think is interesting and pertinent to us and what we do. I'm guessing/hoping it might be helpful to our friends and customers, too. Hence, it's publication in this rather hasty ...
We were at the LG Annual Conference last week and I just wanted to capture some observations. Firstly - and most notably - it's the first time that a serving prime minister has been there and it did bring a frisson to delegates. It was clear, however, that the audience for his speech was not ...
Nick Booth is the man behind the very successful Social Media Surgeries, which help equip community and voluntary groups with social media skills. He's also a former BBC news and documentary journalist. He now runs the Podnosh consultancy in Birmingham, which is dedicated to changing the way 'the public talks to the public sector'. Nick Booth ...