Articles in Tools for Engagement
As most of you might have noticed, the growth of local councils adopting the social media route is growing by the day. The momentum and awareness is growing slowly but surely. As I was sipping my favourite caramel macchiato at Starbucks this morning, I had an light bulb moment and thought its worth sharing it with you.
Recently alot of articles have popped up regarding local councils using facebook (i.e. Dave Briggs & Simon Wakeman to name a few) to engage with citizens. Its a really great time for local government to get involved with new means of communication and engagement with their customers. However early this morning, as I was doing a bit of research, I noticed that there is another angle of Facebook that we are forgetting to acknowledge… Anyone care to take a guess what it is?
I met Glenn Shoosmith, founder of BookingBug at Mashup* event – Realtime Social Web on 29th January 2009 (organized by Simon Grice from BeLocal) and we talked about a new service that he is about to launch. I thought it sounded useful and interesting to share with local councils so I asked if I could feature an interview with him about BookingBug services on my website. So here it is, edited and delivered with the cool “Arctic Monkeys” cool factor! Enjoy CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT BOOKINGBUG
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We are now living in a new age where the Internet is not just another source or another tool. Its become our way of life. People will not only learn to read, write and do …
Straight from the Horses Mouth
Lichfield District Council Planning Twitter: http://twitter.com/ldcplanning
Twitter stats followers: 19
Twitter stats updates: 138
Twitter Fact: Lichfield DC is one of the councils who have setup a twitter account for a specific service (Planning …
Straight from the Horses Mouth
Lichfield District photo from Steve Lightfoot
We currently have 23 members and 332 photos in the group pool, which, given that I only started the group in October is pretty impressive! The …
