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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Simon Wakeman: Local gov shoudn’t be on Facebook
Simon Wakeman has a thought-provoking post on whether Councils should maintain corporate presences in social networking sites like Facebook at all: People using social networks befriend (or fan, whatever the appropriate phrase is) organisations, movements, clubs etc on Facebook and … Continue reading
Posted in Social Networking
Tagged councils, facebook, local government, localgovuk, social networks
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Bookmarks for February 9th through February 25th
These are my links for February 9th from 20:38 to 20:38 Continue reading
LocalGovCamp update
A few things have been happening behind the scenes, and I think it is about time that LocalGovCamp was ‘officially’ launched in some way. I guess this is it. The event will probably take place in June, probably in Birmingham … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged local government, localgov, localgovcamp, UKGC09, unconference
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Friendless council
A tweet from the Public Sector Forums Twitter feed alerted me to this story of Stockport Council’s Facebook presence, which, at the time the article was written, wasn’t particularly popular: A LOCAL authority which reached out to the Facebook generation … Continue reading
Real Help Now
Simon Dickson reports on the new site from the UK Government which currently aggregates news from around the country on what help is available to help businesses and individuals through the current economic difficulties. Fundamentally, in this initial build, it’s … Continue reading
