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How government and citizens can benefit from Open Standards & Open Source Softwares
May 16, 2012 – 1:51 pm | No Comment

First of all, I’d like to start this blog by pointing out that Open Source Software (OSS) and Free Software are not the same thing.
As Carla Shcroder mentioned in her blog
Think of Free Software as being …

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Social Media Gov

There’s alot of stuff out there on social media in government. Here I’ve carefully chosen what you might need to know and other stuff that might be to your liking. So, check it out!

Straight From the Horses Mouth

Here you will find inspiring interviews with key individuals involved either directly or indirectly with local government and their take on online engagement. Very useful!

Tools for Engagement

Sometimes its hard to figure out what works, so why not look at some of the stuff here. You might find them useful to apply to your local council or community website.

Research Data

Here you will find all the research data on local government social media channels that has been collected to date, which includes Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and more to come. Keep checking!

Be Inspired!

Ever feel that you need to be inspired to do your job or just everyday life? Here I’ve hand picked some stuff that might just give you the boost that you need!

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(UPDATED) Search engines are predicting human behaviour and the future for government & citizens
September 30, 2010 – 12:40 pm | No Comment
(UPDATED) Search engines are predicting human behaviour and the future for government & citizens

Recently I’ve been more and more consumed with understanding human behaviour and wondering what makes us tick. Or more accurately is, I’m concerned with how we can correctly predict people’s needs when it comes to …

Looking at some challenges of User-Generated Content (UGC) for organizations
September 24, 2010 – 3:29 pm | No Comment
Looking at some challenges of User-Generated Content (UGC) for organizations

Defining the relationship you want to create
Its important to understand that in the context of user-generated content (UGC), the relationship you currently have your community and what type of relationship you wish to create, are …

ScotWeb2 09: Getting up close and personal with Stuart Harrison on Twitter and Jadu & James Coltham on usability and accessibility issues
August 5, 2009 – 7:34 am | 4 Comments
ScotWeb2 09: Getting up close and personal with Stuart Harrison on Twitter and Jadu & James Coltham on usability and accessibility issues

ScotWeb2 was certainly a different experience from any other unconference I’ve been to. Usually an unconference would consist of a big group but this event was quite an intimate one, which I believe worked towards their advantage.

This was the snipet about the event just in case you’d like to know what it was all about!

Lichfield District Councils Innovative User Generated Content (UGC) Approach to using Flickr
January 15, 2009 – 1:04 pm | No Comment
Lichfield District Councils Innovative User Generated Content (UGC) Approach to using Flickr

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 …