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As some of you may know, I was up in Edinburgh for Scotweb2 on Friday (with Localgovcamp the day after!). I delivered a short session on Twitter and gave some examples and advice. I really was aiming at beginners and newbies, but it turned out more people than I expected were already tweeting. Hopefully I [...]

I’m probably late on this, but, courtesy of a blog post from Mr Fraser Henderson, I’ve spotted Rate My Teachers, a crowdsourced site that allows kids to, as the name suggests, rate their teachers. Pupils get the opportunity to rate their teachers based on easiness, helpfulness, clarity and popularity, as well as give a bit [...]

Yesterday, I had a quick interview with Liz Azyan of LGEO Research about Twitterplan, the whys, wherefores and hows. More information is on the LGEO Research blog, but you can check out the interview below:

Today marks a coming together (if you’re an idiot, you might call it a synergy), of all the obsessions I’ve blogged about so far – Planning Applications, APIs and Twitter. It’s called TwitterPlan, and it allows you to receive alerts of planning applications in your area via Twitter. It uses the Planning Alerts API and [...]

Since my council got a bit of coverage for our usage of Twitter for planning applications, both in the specialist press and SOCITM’s Better Connected report, I’ve received a few calls from other councils who haven’t yet got on the Twitter train asking for a bit of advice. Therefore, in the spirit of sharing, and, [...]

After much, uhming, ahing and “what are the roads like”ing I finally dragged myself out of the house and down the snowy roads of east Birmingham, the roads were fine until I got out of Solihull, but that’s another story. I arrived at the venue (The Blues ground, which would horrify my Villa-supporting in-laws) expecting [...]

Well, it’s was a busy old day for me yesterday, sitting in the warm at home and establishing myself in the blogosphere, and I’ve been blown away by how much traffic my last post attracted. It was one of the commenters on my last post (Martin Stone) who inspired me to post today. He said: [...]

I will, as promised go into some more advanced coding stuff later on this week, but first, here’s a few tips for people who might not be javascript savvy, or for whatever reason might not have code access to their sites (thanks to Andrew Beeken (@abeeken) from Lincoln City Council) Simply follow these steps and [...]

Ask a council webmaster what service gets used on their site the most, and I’ll bet you £10 they’ll say ‘Planning’. Planning is one of the most controversial subjects that councils (particularly shire districts) have to deal with and almost all councils publish planning application data on their websites. The trouble is, a lot of [...]