Over on the project blog we've just published the beta version of the Networked Councillor report. It marks the completion of phase one of the project we're involved in running for Improvement East articulating the challenges and opportunities faced by local politicians in an increasingly networked and digital society. The beta is open for comments - which ...
As part of the work we're doing for the Networked Councillor project we have been looking at how many local authority members in the East of England region use Twitter. While, if you included district councils and parishes, there are thousands of councillors in the region, it's a much smaller number if you look just ...
Update: this event, which was planned for the 26th of October has now been postponed. More details soon... Improvement East and Public-i will be holding a workshop event soon as part of the Networked Councillor project that we are running. It will be at Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) in Cambridge, between 1pm and 3.30pm on ...
We're involved in an exciting project that is looking at how new technology can change the relationship local councillors have with the public. We know that the advent of social media in particular has allowed councillors to tap into online networks, changing the way some are communicating with residents. But what is the appropriate level of ...
As part of a series of posts about our Social Media Audits, we'll be providing examples of how we tackled each project and the benefits it helped to establish for our clients. This first example is from the Cambridgeshire Renewable Infrastructure Framework, and it tells the story of how we used the audit to introduce ...