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 twitterstream called @LDC [...]

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 myself, [...]

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…
He [...]

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, so [...]

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 [...]

The Powers That Be™ have produced an official UK Citizenship Practice Test to see if you’re knowledgeable enough about the UK to be able to become a UK citizen. Unfortunately, there are one or two problems with it: someone a little more unkind than me (oh, okay, me) might wish to dub it the ‘Citizenshit [...]

Despite a somewhat iffy title, this was actually a particularly enjoyable session. The basic premise was that there would be seven different speakers during this section (in three mini-blocks), each of whom would only be given five minutes to speak (to ‘wow’ the audience), and then there would be the opportunity for a few questions [...]