The Cabinet Office Digital Engagement blog produced a template twitter strategy for government departments a couple of weeks ago, so naturally I felt the need to have a look at it and see what they have to say, with a particular view to seeing what bits of the advice are relevant and/or important for other [...]

In a post dating back to the start of July, I wrote about the Where Do You Think You’re Going digital transport event at Hoult’s Yard in Newcastle. One of the particular things which had interested me at this event was a five minute talk by someone called Margaret Bell from Newcastle University, who was [...]

New government guidance has been published urging civil servants to use the micro-blogging site Twitter. Launched on the Cabinet Office website, the 20-page document is calling on departments to “tweet” on “issues of relevance or upcoming events”. BBC News: Government advice urges tweeting Personally, I think this is a great idea. I think government — [...]

Dave Briggs (@davebriggs) chaired the PSF event, so had two opportunities to speak — firstly a fifteen minute ‘welcome’ session (although that was mostly housekeeping matters, and I don’t think it particularly worth blogging about where the fire exits were, and where the toilets were) and then secondly, a session to wrap up the event [...]

And then we had Stuart Harrison (also known as @pezholio) up to talk to us about Twitterplan. I’ve talked about this before, so I’m likely to skip at least some of my notes, but there was still plenty of stuff there which wasn’t covered in that original post… Twitterplan Lichfield Council originally set up a [...]

So, here we go: only a couple of weeks left before I am officially made redundant, and there’s still a lot left to be doing. Obviously, regular readers (or at least those who visit my blog via the actual site, rather than the feed-reader types) will know that I’m looking to go into business for [...]

This one, more fully titled “Losing Control: why people will say what they want about you anyway” was presented by Al Smith (@alncl) of Newcastle City Council. At this point I must also remember to thank Goss Interactive, who have a very useful habit of providing pens and notepads at these events. Anyway, after that [...]

Carl Haggerty (@carlhaggerty) was on immediately following the Browsealoud chap to talk to us about how to go about unblocking access to web 2.0 sites and developing appropriate policies around them. Some of this information can also be found in Carl’s blog post 1 rule and 6 steps to embracing social media in local government, [...]

This was delivered by Mike Saunt of Aston Technology, who I really must apologise to, because for some reason — possibly nerves, knowing I was up after him — my notes for this session don’t seem as comprehensive as some of the others, so I’m sure . But I’ll struggle on as best I can… [...]

The first talk proper (technically Dave Briggs was first, but I’m lumping all his stuff together) at the PSF event “Effective Social Networking & Web 2.0 Strategies for Local Authorities NORTH EAST” was Simon Wakeman, who asked the question “Social Media — A Revolution in Local Government Communications?”. Simon has already put his slides online, [...]