Gov geeks headed for London on Thursday 4 March and gathered for another LocalGovCamp unconference.
With so much to pack into a day we were asked to use just one word to describe why we’d come along and what we hoped to get out of the day as we did a round of introductions. My word [...]

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 [...]

Or ‘The future of journalism: How do government press offices evolve alongside journalism?’
This session was led by Eve Shuttleworth from the Ministry of Justice and was a great example of how an unconference can work; someone tweets a comment from an early session, leads to back channel chat, session suggested and duly added to the [...]