Increasing transparency through local government web development blogs
This blog posts highlight some of the other web development blogs within UK’s local government and how they are increasing transparency for citizens.
This blog posts highlight some of the other web development blogs within UK’s local government and how they are increasing transparency for citizens.
There are different types of blog posts and there are different reasons for every post. So the method varies and might change from one to another. But here might be a few methods that I do use. Feel free to pick and mix!
I know alot of the people that read this blog already have a blog, but for those who don’t have a blog.. I’d like to tell you why you should start blogging.
I recently talked to Matt Johnson from SandwellMBC and he mentioned a really great idea to put all relevant feeds from notable local government blogs on a webpage. This is so other people can keep up with recent activities of fellow colleagues across government. So I’ve selected my top picks for local government online blogs and did a mashup of those blogs. I’m hoping Matt will find this useful and maybe others as well.
Yesterday we introduced talked a little bit on how Councillor James Cousins started blogging. This post feature some Q&A’s on his blogging activities.
This is the 1st part of my interview with Councillor James Cousins, the 2nd part will feature a Q&A.
Cllr. Cousins is a Conservative councillor for Shaftesbury ward in Wandsworth since 1998.
While doing this research, I often remind myself not to get lost and blinded by the gleaming new opportunities offered by technology. Being someone who is possibly technology bias, sometimes its hard not to be.