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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: AudioPlayer.embed(“audioplayer_1″, {soundFile:”aHR0cDovL3d3dy5sZ2VvcmVzZWFyY2guY29tL2F1ZGlvL1R3aXR0ZXJwbGFuUGV6aG9saW8ubXAzA”});

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, [...]

It seems that these days you can’t move for negative press coverage of Twitter, newspapers love to paint it as a haven of banality where people can reveal every detail of their pointless existence (of course, when columnists do it, it’s different somehow). They seem to thrive on sneering at it and at anyone who [...]