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
From an article in The Guardian. A minister apologised to parliament yesterday for telling MPs that 70 police officers were hurt during a climate change protest, after the Guardian revealed that most of the injuries were inflicted by insects or the heat. Vernon Coaker, the Home Office minister, told MPs Read more
Wiltshire Times HeadlineOriginally uploaded by gallomanor It’s not often that young people get positive media coverage, and it is even rarer for Skate Boys to be seen in a positive light. That’s why this needs to be shared. Original Story.
The I’m a Councillor evaluation report for 2008 is now ready. Topline results for this year are that councils were busier than ever before. The average number of questions asked per council is 331, by an average 203 users. Compare that with 111 questions asked, by 126 users in the average council in 2004 and you can see the huge growth there’s been.
This is partly due to great work by councils and teachers. Thanks! But another reason, we think, is that schools now have much better ICT facilities. And teachers and students are more computer literate. So it gets easier and easier to engage schools using a project like this.
One Saturday in January I jumped on an early morning train from Bath to London to go to a BarCamp. My expectations weren’t enormously high. I’d heard they were very geeky, get your laptop out and code type affairs and that, quite frankly, is not me. And it wasn’t BarCampUKGovWeb08 Read more
"Above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you." Barack Obama acknowledges why he won the election. He gave his campaign to his supporters and they gave him his victory.