Local Gov Camp Lincoln Social Reporting Bumper Issue!
So its been a been a while since LocalGovCamp Lincoln but its never too late to share all those juicy details for all your reading and viewing
So its been a been a while since LocalGovCamp Lincoln but its never too late to share all those juicy details for all your reading and viewing
It was certainly interesting to learn that the Better Connected report will also be reporting on local government social media usage in next year’s report!
Being a student and possibly sometimes out of the loop on innovative things like this, it was refreshing to listen to Joss Winn talk about WriteToReply.org.
Its quite interesting to see throughout my research that there are still some traditional web ‘thinking’ going on within the public sector that deters them from fully exploiting the new web’s potential and opportunities. But this is not due to the lack in sufficient technology or gadgets.
Now, I know its kind of funny that every time we mention e-petitions, our minds go directly to Number 10’s e-petition facility. Even when I was in the states attending the Participation Camp, they kept on talking about how wonderful the Number 10 e-petition system was.
With budget cuts looming, there is a greater need to be more innovative in delivering public services online and self-services can be used to deliver more for less. So local council website s are looking like a more attractive channel to move away from the costly business of servicing customer enquiries via the phone or face-to-face to self-service through the local council website.
So as you guys already know, I was at the LocalGovCamp in Lincoln last Friday and was fortunate enough to talk to Andrew Beeken (in video above), who was “the man of the hour” and ask him about what he thought about the whole unconference.