I’ve been trying to get to grips with Facebook Places over the last week or so, despite it not being rolled out beyond the US at the moment.
As with most Facebook functionality the default option is that you fully opt-in to the service, which will allow you to use GPS to share your location. There [...]

Out of one of those random Twitter conversations comes another potentially useful place to share experience and knowledge with other local gov folk.
We’re currently gearing up for the project to redesign / rebuild our public website and I tweeted a couple of people at other authorities I knew were a little further down the line [...]

Toward the end of last week I made an impromptu decision to get to grips with making maps. Not so much in the form of deciding to become a cartographer but more along the lines of learning the tricks behind making Google MyMaps with lots of mashed up stuff on them.
And thanks to Stuart Harrison, [...]