Back in January a Bristol City Council webcast received more than 3,500 live views– when the redevelopment of Bristol Rovers’ Memorial stadium was considered by the authority’s development control committee. While Bristol is no stranger to such big viewing figures, a few things made the meeting worth shouting about. For us, it was the first time ...
Over the weekend Catherine spoke at the FutureGov-organised Councillor Camp that brought together people interested in the future of elected local-authority members. Catherine wore several hats at the event, including chief executive of the largest provider of webcasting to local government and expert on how local government should be engaging in digital spaces. These two are ...
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 ...
Today has been a busy one at Public-i. While a small number of us have been at Solace Summit, many more were back at HQ concentrating on Cornwall Council's extraordinary council webcast. It saw leader of the council, Alec Robertson, lose a vote of confidence, members of the cabinet resign and a new leader voted in. ...
Next week sees the annual gathering of local authority chief executives at the Solace Summit, held this year in Coventry. As ever, a number of Public-iers will be there. While I'll be lending a hand with social reporting, Sarah, Mathew and Dave will be talking about our Open Network engagement work. And last but by no ...