Tag: digital engagement

News is an onion

A wise ogre once told a donkey, “Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.” I’d like to add a third to the ‘things with layers list’; online news. While the news industry is going through all this change I’m making sense of it by comparing…

October 26, 2009
A short note for Mr Stott before he comes to see us all…

There’s plenty of discussion going on in Government about putting data out and what to put out and how to put it out and all that nonsense. Especially in local government. It sounds like there’s concern that releasing data isn’t good enough and that government has a responsibility to put that data into a format…

October 1, 2009
Government need to get relaxed about IT procurement

At yesterday’s inaugural Lichfield Social Media Café the conversation turned to local government e-petitions. Will Perrin pointed out that local gov have issues using an open-source system like the Number 10 petitions system because of restrictive IT contracts. The U.S. is again making progress in this area, by launching Apps.gov (hat-tip to Dave Briggs) which…

September 16, 2009
How MPs can use Twitter to their advantage

I’m pleased to say that my local government is pretty good at this whole internet thing. The Lichfield District Council web site should definitely be looked up to by other councils and they’re also on Twitter along with the tourism folks. But as recent talk has shown, some MPs don’t quite get social media and aren’t quite…

March 27, 2009