Nice video about a history professor in the States using Twitter as a way of holding class discussions with 90 students. They found out a lot of the same things that we've discovered with I'm a Councillor, I'm a Scientist and ConferenceXtra – being able to contribute digitally suits some Read more
VisitBlackpool have created a short film and published it on YouTube. Just shy of 27,000 and 200 comments it has certainly sparked some interest. The film itself hasn’t got me looking for a hotel to stay, but it does make me feel more positive to the town. The folk there Read more
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I’m often advising councils that conversations happen in the community and they can’t force them to happen where they want them to happen. We’ve suffered from this in the past couple of days. Having posted a 3 minute video about I’m a Councillor on YouTube we were keeping our fingers Read more
The European Parliament have released a set of posters to encourage us to vote in the European elections on June 2nd. I liked this one. Made me think about what my choice would be. One slight gripe. The posters have been uploaded to Flickr with all rights reserved. This means Read more
“The provisions will not cover people under 18. It is right to treat children and young people differently, for example through age limits on alcohol consumption, and there is little evidence of harmful age discrimination against young people.” [my italics] Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality The Equality Bill Read more
That's right, get your popcorn ready (although you'll need to eat it quite quickly). We've made a short film about the event, to help show people what it's like. A council officer who was briefing her councillors before the event once said to me, 'I'm a Councillor is a great Read more
Bob Geldof arrived a short while ago and I was introducing him to our bloggers. Suddenly we weren’t alone. For the record. It’s my nose touching Bob’s nose.
I'm back in the hotel having brought together 50 bloggers from around the world to gain access to the G20 Summit in the morning. Today, Wednesday, whilst protests took place around the City of London those 50 bloggers met for the first time, listened to each other and discussed what Read more
If anyone ever asks you why Civil Servants or politicians should blog, send them over to Martin Leach’s most recent post. Martin is one of the DFID bloggers that we’ve been coaching. He’s recently arrived in Kigali, Rwanda as Head of DFID Rwanda. He’s just published a post called Dear Read more