This UKGovCamp 10 Session by Al Smith was focused mainly on how council’s responded to January’s Big Freeze in terms of online communication.
Al had some interesting experience and innovations to share around communicating quickly information on school closures, road gritting and any affected services.
The group talked about how in a rapidly occurring situation online communication [...]

So, the transition from 2009 into 2010 was dressed in two jumpers and mittens as The Big Freeze hit the UK.
The snow which had made a white Christmas a fun-filled festive treat turned the return to work flicker between tedious and treacherous on the disruption scale.
There have already been posts about how council services and [...]

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 [...]