I’m not normally the biggest fan of Youth Councils as they seem to be a way of replicating the mistakes of "adult councils", but they do have their place. Equally, though, I don’t believe any council should set up a Read more…
Viewing the visitor logs for your blog can make strange reading sometimes. Three weeks ago I wrote a post about a project called BlogCode. BlogCode was intended to help visitors to a blog find other similar blogs that they might Read more…
Tomorrow, Friday 10th March see the launch of a project that we initiated 15 months ago by inviting Bristol City Council to jointly pitch for funding from the ODPM e-Innovations fund. CampaignCreator was conceived as a way of levelling the Read more…
Cllr Bob Piper, the author of one of the more entertaining councillor blogs, wrote a very interesting post about loyalty to the "party" a couple of days ago. I think it must be weighing on his mind because today he Read more…
Last summer a very creative and clever lady called Fran Farrar from Norfolk Children’s Services mentioned an idea about getting vulnerable young people and Councillors to use cameras to share their life experiences over the period of a day. Working Read more…
Want to find blogs similar to the one you’re reading? Want to attract readers to a new blog? BlogCode is a nifty endeavour by Tim Ireland and the makers of StoryCode (to find similar books) that allows you to code Read more…
The Local Democracy Campaign kicks is being officially launched on Monday 27th February in the Terrace Pavilion at the House of Commons. We’ll have the pleasure of hearing three MP: Ed Miliband, Charles Hendry and Sarah Teather and hopefully the Read more…
We’ve been involved in Local Democracy Week for five years now. In the first year one council asked us to come up with something with a fortnight’s notice. That was tough. Last year Coventry City Council started their work in Read more…
Nick Robinson, the BBC’s Political Editor, has published the script of an excellent lecture he gave recently on the troubled relationship between politics and the media. He outlines 5 stages in order to repair the marriage. It is well worth Read more…
A series of three regional conferences kicks off tomorrow at the CBI conference centre at Centrepoint. Wednesday 1st February sees the Bristol event before the roadshow hits Leeds on the 8th. The conferences are deisgned to highlight the work produced Read more…