Social Media awards for revamped youth parliament campaign

Last year we won a number of accolades for our use of social media to promote the 2009 Scottish Youth Parliament elections. I blogged at the time that we would … Continue reading

ScotGovCamp 2011 tickets now available

We’ve updated the ScotGovCamp website with a few more details of the 2011 event, and I’m pleased to say that booking is now open. The event takes place on Saturday … Continue reading

Mobile apps in local gov

Last week I facilitated a session on mobile apps, for various interested parties. We were joined by Jamie and Mike from the Improvement Service, as well as Gordon and Niall, … Continue reading

Walsall Council in round the clock Tweet experiment

Walsall Council have just wrapped up a round the clock Twitter marathon, during which time they tweeted about their services and the various things happening in the area. @walsallcouncil posted … Continue reading

5 radical approaches to Intranets

We’re currently redeveloping our staff Intranet, and as part of this exercise I’ve been trying to radicalise my own thinking about what we want our Intranet to do – to … Continue reading

Youth Parliament Elections campaign – a social media case study

Later this week I’ll be attending a national awards ceremony, at which one of our campaigns has been nominated for an award. ** UPDATE – we won! ** Edinburgh’s 2009 … Continue reading

Scotland’s first GovCamp

A quick note for those involved in working with government in Scotland, particularly in digital engagement. The end of July will see Scotland’s first GovCamp. There’s no agenda as yet … Continue reading

Election Count 2.0 in Edinburgh

Over the past year or two there has been a palpable surge of interest in using Web 2.0 in the public sector, and in most cases that’s a very positive … Continue reading

Better Connected 2010 – comparing the 4 star homepages

As we’re currently considering designs for our organisation’s new website homepage, I thought it would be interesting to bring together all of the 11 local authority websites which were awarded … Continue reading

Better Connected 2010 and the changing web

Hot on the heels of their (always hotly debated) annual report on the state of local government websites (Better Connected 2010), we were pleased to welcome SOCITM reviewer John Fox … Continue reading