DavePress
A blog about technology, culture and the bits in between, with a focus on government and public services. Written and curated by Dave Briggs, Learning Pool's Community Evangelist. Find out more.
Search Results for: lgsearch
Add LGSearch to your browser
LGSearch is a search engine for the UK public sector that I developed quite a while ago. It’s built on Google Custom Search, and isn’t particularly clever, but is rather useful. Anyway, inspired by Simon’s recent efforts on behalf of … Continue reading
Posted in Browsers, Search
Tagged firefox, internet explorer, lgsearch, mozilla, mycroft, plugin, Search
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Bookmarks for March 15th through March 22nd
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 15th through March 22nd: Ben’s Experiments » James and the Giant Peach – The boy had to do an audio recording for his school project. I thought it was only fair to make it … Continue reading
Bookmarks for February 9th through February 25th
These are my links for February 9th from 20:38 to 20:38 Continue reading
Another new DavePress look
I’ve given DavePress yet another facelift. This one is a lot lighter and hopefully more friendly too. Personally, I especially like the ‘adverts’ in the top right corner, pimping my social media wares, such as my newsletter, ReadWriteGov and LGSearch. … Continue reading
LGSearch update
LGSearch is something of an anomaly in my ‘portfolio’ of stuff I’ve made in that is actually works and is useful. I built it a couple of years ago while working as Risk Management Officer at a County Council. Essentially, … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Search
Tagged findability, google cse, lgsearch, personalised search, public sector
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How councils can get started with social media
A sunday morning tweet from Tom Watson set my mind racing this morning: Which is a very interesting question, not least for me as I have a considerable interest in loca government’s use of social media, as facilitator of the … Continue reading
Posted in E-Democracy, Featured, Social Media
Tagged local government, Social Media, strategy, tom watson, web24gov
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lgSHOUT!
lgSHOUT! is another little service I have put together for local government, following on from LGSearch, which went a little way to fixing the problem of getting relevant search results. lgSHOUT! tries to do something about communication. The idea behind … Continue reading
Google: not just search
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people reading this blog that Google provides a number of services other than their traditional business area of web search. Many of the tools can be used as part of an online … Continue reading
Every community needs a killer app
One of the key challenges to establishing a community is attracting engagement – not just getting the numbers in of people signing up, but getting them to actively take part. One step to achieve this is through gradual culture change, … Continue reading
Use Google CSE on your blog
Google’s customised search engine service is really cool, useful and dead easy to use. It’s what I used to create LGSearch, which is one of the most successful bits of online work I have done. What Google CSE does is … Continue reading