Five things we can already learn from Queensland Police use of social media |...
via benproctor.co.uk Ben Proctor reviews the police and local government use of mainstream social media tools in Queensland, Australia. A really good breakdown of Twitter and Facebook in emergency...
View ArticleSaving heart attack victims? There's an app for that
via flickr.com Adriel Hampton writes at Gov2.0 Radio about the Arizona fire service using an iPhone app which will allow trained, vetted volunteers to go to the aid of heart attack victims in the...
View ArticleWhereNSW - location strategies in New South Wales
via flickr.com New South Wales is developing a strategy for better use of location information, which is nice. But the way that they're doing it is even nicer. It's starting out with crowd sourcing of...
View ArticleSunderland's social media
via flickr.com Missed it at the time, but there's a nice write up of Sunderland's use of social media featuring Lee Ridley. Sunderland City Council has a long history of developing a range of...
View ArticleHow Open Data Initiatives Can Improve City Life
via mashable.com The online tech "magazine" Mashable has highlighted 5 North American examples of cities doing cool things with open data. Featuring Ottawa's open data app contest with $50k in prizes,...
View ArticleNYC Condom - Get Some!
via facebook.com Earlier this week - on Valentine's Day (which happens to be Condom Awareness Day as well, apparently) New York City launched a new free condom location app. Available for Android or...
View ArticleRanking transparency: An A+ in Anderson, South Carolina
via flickr.com The Sunshine Review is an organisation in the US which is evaluating transparency on state and local government websites in the US. They have a clear set of criteria for publishing...
View ArticleOpen data in Catalonia
via flickr.com The region of Catalonia has an amazing open data site with an English version! In a quick look around the beautiful and easily navigable site, it appears to be acting as more than a...
View ArticleMy urban angel: City Camp Brighton
via flickr.com The CityCamp movement is sweeping the UK....Starting at CityCamp London, now CityCamp Brighton this past weekend and other plans are afoot elsewhere. CityCamps combine a teensy bit of...
View ArticleDirectgov: Find out about details of council expenditure over £500
via local.direct.gov.uk Just a quick one! Type in your postcode, address or council name and be taken to your council's expenditure data. Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleAre you in? Obama and Facebook connect
via picasaweb.google.com Normally, the LocalGov2.0 blog is reserved for matters local, sometimes state and regional. But never national! Oh dear, making an exception. But this is a good one, this is...
View ArticleSpeak out Sutton!
via flickr.com The London Borough of Sutton, like a number of other councils, is using an online engagement tool to get residents' views and ideas - Speak Out Sutton It's a dialogue app powered by...
View ArticleMobile phone touring
via flickr.com One cool thing I've seen on my hols in America is mobile phone tourist info stops. You simply phone the number and get the info that you might have had to get from one of those audio...
View ArticleNYC digital road map
via flickr.com "NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne today unveiled Road Map for the Digital City – a comprehensive strategy to make New York the nation’s leading...
View ArticleElection tales
via flickr.com As part of a community reporters project, local people used a variety of social media to cover the local elections in Kirklees. Some really interesting coverage of election night,...
View ArticleTransparency and text: Cllr Iain Roberts and council agendas
via flickr.com To be honest, I don't really understand why a councillor should have to do this, but it's good that one is. Councillor Iain Roberts (Lib Dem) of Stockport council is republishing...
View ArticleDigitalkoot | fun in the archives
via digitalkoot.fi Lots of talk these days about 'gamification'. Turning mundane tasks into games, making them fun. Getting lots of people to do little bits and pieces of work, like tagging imagines...
View ArticleDigital marketplace: campaigns and creativity
via portfoliocreative.org All councils do campaigns to raise awareness and prompt action on everything from adoption to direct debit on council tax to what's on and more. And although details and...
View ArticleStirling poo - bag it and bin it
via flickr.com Is there anything ickier than dog poo in your path? Stirling Council has a print/radio/social campaign to remind people to bag it and bin it. And there's a great council web page which...
View ArticleOpen Data Challenge - Ireland
via data.fingal.ie Fingal County Council, Dublin City Council and a range of other partners recently hosted Ireland's first Open Data Challenge. An 18 hour event using local open data to create useful...
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