Last year, I started a group exclusively for local govvies on Huddle called LocalGovWebStars with some help from a good local gov buddy of mine, Ken Eastwood (Assistant Director at Barnsley MBC and founder of publicsectornomads.com) to talk about website redesign projects in local gov. The group resulted in some very interesting discussions and tips.Read… Read more »
It seems many of us are working on all sorts of different stuff nowadays. I’ve been listening to everything that’s going on in local government and feeling quite overwhelmed with how much is going on (even with the budget cuts!). We still have lots to worry about but with even fewer resources. There are aRead… Read more »
Frustration There is nothing more frustrating than being in government right now if you are looking for change or motivation in your work. With almost no funding available, fewer colleagues to carry the burden, feeling of loss and uncertainty, we are facing an all time low. Everyone knows that with fewer resources, it makes itRead… Read more »
Website Redesign Questionnaire Checklist Having been involved with Camden Council’s website redesign, I myself have had some lessons to be learnt like Kevin Brewer from Derby City Council. However, I’ve realized that after talking to several web development teams across local government here in the UK, we all operate or are structured very differently fromRead… Read more »
More and more German municipalities are using microblogging service Twitter.com – mainly as a complementary news outlet. A map provided by ifib (Institute for Information Management Bremen) displays more than 60 tweeting municipalities – Städte, Gemeinden & Kreise – in April 2011, highlighting total number of tweets and follower count. It looks like cities inRead… Read more »
Today starts 2011’s World Creativity and Innovation Week. The week always starts on Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, which is April 15. From the WCIW website, “How it All Started” In May 2001 Canadian creativity specialist Marci Segal noticed a banner headline in one of Canada’s national newspapers, “Canada in Creativity Crisis” it read. “No itRead… Read more »
The NIST Security Configuration Checklist for Intel vPro Technology provides information your IT team needs in order to make maximum use of the hardware available in your enterprise (assuming your have modern IT- if you don’t, then this checklist provides yet another impetus to modernize: you cannot secure legacy IT like you can modern vProRead… Read more »
A call for papers — with submission deadlines of 13 May 2011 for research papers and 3 June 2011 for position papers — has been posted for SIRE 2011: SIGIR 2011 Information Retrieval for E-Discovery Workshop, to be held 28 July 2011 in Beijing, China. The workshop will be collocated with SIGIR 2011: The 34thRead… Read more »
The United Nations telecommunications agency is offering $10,000 for the most innovative mobile phone application about climate change. Original post
According to the NY Times there is an App called “Autography” proposed for the iPad where a digital photo of the author with a fan is sent to an iPad, complete with message from the author written with an electronic stylus, (“Would You Sign My Kindle?” By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, April 13, 2011).That all sounds aRead… Read more »