Hi, I’m also out there tweeting! I work for a Cabinet Office-funded quango called the Commission for the Compact, which promotes and develops the Compact agreement between government and the third sector… Fascinating I’m sure you’ll agree. I go by the unlikely moniker of “strix_aluco” BTW (look it up if your’e interested/confused).

Wandsworth Council also have a twitter feed but they haven’t said anything yet!

Thanks for the list, however, the forename has been mis-spelt!

Thanks Dave - a very useful list.

Nice work Dave. I wonder if this list could be added to the Govt 2.0 wiki in the hope that it might encourage other jurisdictions to add their lists…

This is really helpful Dave and will help me to extol the benefits of e-networking within my business unit. Thank you. Cheers S

Hi Dave, great stuff yet again….

There are some additional people within my authority who have started twittering, and more soon, so i will be back with more names.

They are:

Russell Taylor (eComms) @russ_t_uk
Martin Howitt (Enterprise Architect) @mhowitt
Emma Jarvis (ICT Programmes) @emjarvis

Hi Dave, back again

here are some more from Devon CC.

Sue Tylcoat (Solutions development manager) @suety
Pete Morton (enterprise architect) @podra
Sue Bicks (enterprise architect) @subix

The @NHSChoices account hasn’t found a voice yet, but we have one tweeting our latest blog posts @nhschoicestalk. Am attempting to add other updates to it too so its not just an RSS feed, which I know is incredibly dull to follow.

Oh dear. I am way behind on this one! Could you do a post on the sort of value you and all these other guys are getting from twitter? I am not sure why I or an average public sector guy might want to start using twitter? Can you give a few situations where it might be helpful to people - best I can think of is Egyptian dissidents keeping each other informed about whether they have been arrested and currently that is not an issue for me! I have a Twitter account and have done a few tweets, but could not really find an intersection with my work or personal life!

What about each of the political parties? They all have their own Twitter accounts.

How good is this? Thanks Dave. About 6 new follows for me on this list. Maybe what we need is an OPML file for feeds for all these twitter users and public sector bloggers, rolled into one.

Great list Dave.

I’m based in the Infrastructure Organisation network in the Third Sector (one of those CVS thingies that support smaller community organisations). I’m thinking of something similar on our side …. a list of Third Sector Inf Org Twitterers. The list is pretty short at the moment !

What I would really like to do is match up your list of LA Twitter feeds with the CVS’ I know that Tweet (or use Social Media) and see if there are examples in an authority area where they have worked together on Social Media projects, or just had better LSP relationships as a result.

The Twitter list is short, but the RSS feed and Blog list is pretty good and growing.

Results so far are shown in the map on http://watfordgap.wordpress.com/using-web-20/

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Dave

Stumbled across this today, a very useful list.

@Paul Johnston You might find this list useful for communication related twitter tools and how you can get use out of it. http://www.briansolis.com/2008/10/twitter-tools-for-community-and.html

@Neil Williams Have you seen Group Tweet for sharing confidential messages between Twitter users?http://grouptweet.com/.

Zahoor Hussain
http://www.twitter.com/zahoori

Thanks for the list.

Under politicians, there’s also @joswinson

@Zahoor, I hadn’t, I will now. Also sending you a follow now.

http://www.twitter.com/ehrc is the Equality and Human Rights Commission - in ‘beta’ at the moment. Tried DM’ing you on Twitter, but couldn’t…

Lincoln has been Tweeting for a couple of days now (http://www.twitter.com/lincolncouncil); I should hopefully be adding a few more content feeds (Jobs, videos and committees) to our TwitterFeed and, in the new year, looking at how we can use it more than just a tool to redistribute our RSS in one place.

Also, as you know, I’m tweeting however I don’t know as my tweets are too personal for your list?

Independent Parish Councillor http://twitter.com/mjray (also http://identi.ca/mjray but slightly different content).

I have the impression that you don’t consider us humble parish councils part of uk gov, but I could be wrong.

I’m a councillor in Birmingham and I’m on Twitter as of yesterday:

http://twitter.com/PeterSmallbone

Dave, are you maintaining this list still?

If so check out @dfid_uk and @directgov and change me to BERR!

Ta

A great comparison of 86 Local Authority Twitter accounts here:
http://is.gd/tCQ1

Good list of the local authorities that are twittering away - well the first column of the table is !
Not sure that the number of followers is helpful in this setting, does number of followers equate to strength of the authority ?
A lot of those listed are merely using the Twitter account to stream news - not a bad thing as we all want to know what is happening around us, but the really clever authorities in the list can be seen to be listening back and starting up dialouge with their audience.

That ‘engagement factor’ would be good to capture.

Having a member of staff whose role it is to simply monitor the array of social networking sites and respond to questions and postings is not a waste of time and money.

@directgov

cheers,

Paul
@paul_clarke

I’d appreciate being added to the list. I’m a reviewer for Socitm’s Better Connected and (normally) a local authority web manager, but I’m out of action at present due to incapacity.

Twitter: x333xxx

Thanks!