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Tag Archives: public sector
Social reporting at Cisco08 Public Sector Summit
I am having fun here in Stockholm providing social web backup to the Public Sector Summit – an event arranged by Cisco to discuss how technology and government can help each other. We have quite a bit of activity going … 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
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Tagged findability, google cse, lgsearch, personalised search, public sector
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Public sector blogging in the Guardian
I had the pleasure of talking to Patrick Butler of the Guardian the other day on the subject of public sector types blogging. He did a jolly good job of editing down everything I said into one paragraph in his … Continue reading
Rethinking government news
Where do government and other public sector folk get their news from? Info4Local eGov Monitor GCN Kable Individual government department websites Any others? I wonder if there is a possibility for putting together a one-stop-shop for news, aggregating the popular … Continue reading
Public servants must blog, despite Civil Serf
…but they do have to be sensible about it. The UK blogosphere is getting jolly excited about the case of the Civil Serf blog (no point linking to it, it’s gone now) which has disappeared following mainstream media interest in … Continue reading
