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Tag Archives: research
Residents online: opportunities for councils?
Rob Dale at LGIU blogs about some research being done in collaboration with Networked Neighbourhoods about the impact of online local community activity. You can take part: If you are a councillor, complete this survey. If you are an officer … Continue reading
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. What we talk about when we talk about RSS – A useful bit of background to the future of RSS debate. Media Trust explains how local news hubs will work … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, biglottery, Blogging, Communities, community, democracy, gov20, hyperlocal, law, mediatrust, online_community, opengovernment, police, reporting, research, RSS, socialmedia, trolling
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Auditing digital engagement
One of the things that comes out of the training we do is that evaluating online engagement is hard. What’s more, just finding out whether you are doing the right things is tricky too. Looking at other people’s good practice … Continue reading
Posted in Digital engagement, engagement
Tagged audit, digital engagement, evaluation, kind of digital, research
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‘Official’ local gov blogging
Simon writes a nice post celebrating the existence of the new official BIS blog, and provides a handy list of existing Whitehall “formal, properly-designated corporate ‘blogs’”. Here they are – I’ve also added UKTI’s blog to the list, which I’m … Continue reading
From New Public Management to Open Governance (the back story)
I’m delighted to publish this – a guest post from Emer Coleman, Director of Digital Projects at the GLA, sharing her dissertation with us. Anyone who has been following me on Twitter for the past year will know my struggles … Continue reading
