Comments on: Social media & local government

By: Dane Wright

Dane Wright — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:02:08 +0000

We have added fields to the eGov Register website to hold links to official social media sites for each UK local authority. Currently we plan to hold links for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. if you want to contribute any updates please email egr@brent.gov.uk. See

http://www.brent.gov.uk/egr.nsf/webviews/Local+Authorities+-+Social+Media

By: Yvette Bordley

Yvette Bordley — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:06:40 +0000

Thanks for the post. We are experimenting with social media at Brighton & Hove City Council. In fact we have been noted as out-tweeting all other city councils Twitter.com.

The virual informal centre for government online sounds like a great idea. It would be very interesting to share knowledge and see how other authorities are using social media to engage with people and communicate through the recession.

By: Tales of a Web 2.0 city « A Pretty Simple blog

Tales of a Web 2.0 city « A Pretty Simple blog — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:05:47 +0000

[...] Dave Brigg’s summary of ‘bits and pieces’ relating to social media in local government [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:26:30 +0000

Not at all, in fact I was doing dome background stuff last week to see what might be available to use. I was concentrating on local gov – so tags like localgovuk and lgedem were the ones I was looking at, along with some sort of aggregation – maybe just a Pageflake – to pull it all together.

But ICELE’s imminent demise made me pull back, and I wonder whether a wider scope is required. We have local government engaging in social media, central government doing the same. Then there is the eDemocracy stuff, which is kind of similar but seems to be separate- again at both the national and the local level.

I think there is an opportunity to work with CLG, DIUS etc about what they are planning and unorganise a new (virtual?) informal centre for government online, bringing central and local together, eDem buffs and webbies all in one place.

A common tag for all this stuff would be a good start. Something that says web and government, but isn’t excluding. SlashGov maybe?!

By: Jeremy Gould

Jeremy Gould — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:18:53 +0000

Thanks for these. Know what you mean about it being all over the place. Is a commonly agreed tag too obvious?

By: FutureGov » Useful links » links for 2008-06-01

FutureGov » Useful links » links for 2008-06-01 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:32:58 +0000

[...] Social media & local government | DavePress Dave talking about the pockets of best practice in social media in local government currently – including my work at Barnet (cheers Dave!) (tags: goodpractice localauthority social media) [...]

By: Steve Dale

Steve Dale — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:18:24 +0000

Dave,

excellent timing! I’m in the process of putting a presentation together on this topic for an event coming up in June. I’m hoping I’ll be able to use some of this info.

Steve

By: Simon Wakeman

Simon Wakeman — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:12:07 +0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the link – I think there’s a real challenge to connect pockets of best practice in social media / local government. The CoP is an interesting start, although I fear it may be “preaching to the converted” to an extent.

Councils love best practice and seeing what other councils are up to, so there’s definitely an appetite – the challenge is to deliver this in a way that is appropriate to the local govt communicator audience.

Like your blog by the way – have added to my RSS list

cheers,
sw