I’ve not done this before, but I have seen quite a few of them, so I thought it was probably time to bite that metaphorical bullet and produce my twitter mosaic. This is basically a set of images of all of the people who are following me on twitter. There probably aren’t many spammers on [...]

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 [...]

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 — [...]

Just a few shorts here, none of which are really worthy of a blog post in their own right, but I thought that if I stuck three of them together it might just about pass muster. So here goes. Pointless Twittery Thing #1: Cursebird Yes, thanks to Cursebird you can now see exactly how much [...]

Now I have up to now been relatively assured of my own heterosexuality. I’m married, I have children, and I find women attractive in a way that I don’t find men. These to me are all indicators of heterosexuality (not the same thing as ‘predictors of beaconicity’, for any local government types). And as I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I came across one of those quizzes (created by The Oatmeal) designed to tell me how addicted to twitter I am. I’m not quite sure why the number of people who are following me, as opposed to the number of people I follow, is deemed to be a good indicator of this, although I maybe [...]

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, [...]

I wasn’t first up at the PSFBuzz event, but since there were some ahem minor technical hitches with my presentation (somewhat owing to the fact that the internet connection didn’t actually connect to the internet, which is a bit of a drawback as far as internet connections go), I wanted to get a blog version [...]