Lord Toby Harris is proposing a debate in the House of Lords on February 12th. The proposal reads: Lord Harris of Haringey to call attention to the growth in the use of social networking internet sites by children and the adequacy of safeguards to protect their privacy and interests; and Read more…
Mike Alderson from OpenEye DM'd (Twitter jargon for sending an email) me this evening. He was pondering the role of his blog vs twitter. So in the tradition of answering messages via the blog… For me the blog is the place to show your credentials. You can demonstrate you are Read more…
Google Analytics provides a wealth of information, but for most of our projects the map of where the visitors come from is very skewed towards the UK, US and Australia. Apart from one project that is… The map for the DFID blogs has truly international footprint. Since the blogs Read more…
Nick Palmer MP wrote last week to his mailing list: "Just a quick note to say that the email addresses of MPs who Greenepace think might sympathise with them over Heathrow are being swamped with thousands of identical emails that they've asked supporters to send. The effect of this is Read more…
A week ago I joined a couple of Facebook groups and invited all my UK friends to join me. I used www.writetothem.com to send a email to my MP and I blogged about it here. 8,000 people have since joined the main group and yesterday the plans to change the Read more…
When the Govt announced the third runway at Heathrow last week Justin Kerr-Stevens suggested that they had something to hide. I doubt the announcement was made as a diversion, but someone decided that it was a good time to announce that Harriet Harman as Leader of the House (under lobbying Read more…
Ivor Tossell, from Toronto’s Globe and Mail paper, has given Twitter a clever positioning against other social media networks “Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you’d like to know better.” (h/t Hazel Hall and Tess Darley via Twitter of course)
James Cleverly has been appointed Ambassador for young people in London. It’s a high profile job and it will be a difficult job. I’ve met James and I remember his energy, optimism, good cheer and willingness to help others. He’ll do well. Congratulations to you James. Good luck.
Just before Christmas we finished the evaluation report for CivicSurf and submitted it to the Ministry of Justice. In the interests of sharing our learning we’ve posted it on the CivicSurf site. Click on CivicSurf Evaluation Report to download all five pages of it [PDF, 60kb]
It's a fairly important part of the DCLG White Paper Consultation process for CivicSurf. The Code of Practice on Local Authority Publicity has been blamed by many as a major obstacle to helping councillors use blogs. This consultation is a chance to make your views clear on the matter. I'll Read more…