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Well, it’s finally happened – massively over budget, and over three years late, Birmingham City Council’s website has finally launched.
And what a disappointment it is, admittedly it’s [...]

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 [...]

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:
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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 sends [...]

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, being [...]