This post is just to an accompaniment to my piece about police and crime commissioners. It rounds up information I've collected on the new body that I hope others will find useful… Police and crime commissioners will take over responsibility for overseeing police forces from police authorities, following their election on the 15th of November this ...
Over the last year at Public-i, we've worked hard to develop a new product, the Social Media Audit - which we're now ready to start talking about a bit more on the blog. That'll take the form of a few case studies - and we'll share them as they arrive. But for the moment I ...
At last week's Public-i User Group we were dealing with the thorny issue of councillors' use of social media - and in particular what councils should do to encourage and engender good social media practice among members. It was a fascinating debate - and you can follow it on the archive webcast of the event here. There ...
At the Public-i user group on Thursday (1st of December 2011) I video interviewed Matt Bond, communications specialist at Cornwall Council. It was good to catch up with Matt, who has been the lynchpin in Cornwall's interactive meetings - manning the Cover It Live chat/blog that the council has been running to help citizens play a ...
Today I'm at the 'Talking about money' event at Adur Civic Centre, where staff from statutory agencies across Sussex are talking about budget consultation - and in particular how to more effectively engage communities about budets, spending and priority setting to inform financial decision making. I and others will try to keep you up to date ...