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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by by Sarah

LocalGov group hug*

A slightly unusual name for the first session I attended at UKGovCamp10, suggested and led by someone I won’t name as they’d come unofficially rather than on behalf of their organisation.
The session was intended to share progress, experience and tips on social media,online and technology for local government. The focus was on how to get [...]

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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by by Sarah

Social networking for councils

A lively kick off to LocalGovCamp Lincoln with this session on ideas and experience of social networking in local government as suggested and lead by Chris Schubert of East Lindsay District Council.
This session started with a discussion about whether council’s should use Facebook or whether people are going to Facebook for purely social reasons and [...]

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Posted on October 15th, 2009 by by Sarah

Going local

I went over to Walsall in the West Midlands last night to attend the Black Country Social Media Cafe. Part of this was to see how they do it over there to feed into the Derbyshire Social Media Cafe but also it’s fantastic to meet up to talk about online with people (yes, enjoy the [...]

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