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

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

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

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?!