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 ...
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 ...
On Monday last week Brighton and Hove City Council invited me in to watch the Open Door live webcast, in which council leader Jason Kitcat answered residents' questions put to him on Twitter. This was the fourth Open Door event Brighton and Hove has held. Residents are able to use the hashtag #BHOpenDoor or a CoveritLive ...
Just before Christmas my colleague Andy Baker rustled up a Twitter list of all the police and crime commissioners on Twitter that we could find. Now we've used that to have a quick look at how the commissioners are using Twitter. I'm not going to pretend that any of this is scientific - or that ...
Last week we wrote to round-up all the fantastic ideas for boosting webcast viewing figures that were shared at the user group in November. We mentioned that we'd be writing this week to tell people about some of the technical points that were also made at the same meeting. At that user group, Lewis Broad-Ashman and ...