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  Work Together wrote a new blog post: Green Flag Thematic Study: Improving Economic Prosperity During the Recession   1 day, 15 hours ago
  

  PDF Improving Economic Prosperity During the Recession Aug 2010

  There are patterns of common responses by local authorities and their partners to the impact of the recession – task forces, early payment  of invoices from small businesses, financial inclusion services, redundancy support, etc), highlighted by the Audit Commission report (When it comes to [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Cllr Andrew Wallis: councillor blog   1 day, 18 hours ago
  

  
  via cllrandrewwallis.blogspot.com

  Most of the examples in my LocalGov2.0 example blog have been about the institutional use of social media or open data in local government. But there are at least as many examples of councillors who are using social [...]

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  Work Together wrote a new blog post: Warrington Borough Council transport study   3 days, 16 hours ago
  

  PDF Warrington Borough Council transport case study July 2010

  Key Learning Points for Others  

  Warrington Council and its partners have focused on the quality and usability of their bus service. They have been able to offer a viable alternative to the car for local journeys as a result of their focus on the quality of service, [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Transparency in the Council: Kensington and Chelsea and the big spreadsheet   1 week ago
  

  
  via rbkc.gov.uk

  Kensington and Chelsea have joined the growing number of councils that are exposing their expenditure data. Although there are only 20ish so far, that number is getting bigger all the time, so much so that I’ve made the decision that [...]

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  Work Together wrote a new blog post: Reducing CO2 Emissions   1 week, 1 day ago
  

  PDF Reducing CO2 Emissions Aug 2010 

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  These six partnerships have acted upon a collective knowledge that climate change is already impacting upon their locality and that the future impacts and costs require urgent action now. Many areas have completed Local Climate Impact Profiles and are commencing on the comprehensive risk assessments [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Social beats cash: a local campaign case study   1 week, 2 days ago
  

  
  via flickr.com

  It seems like we’re miles away from an election right now, but the next local polling in England might just be the social media election we didn’t quite get in May.

  Stephanie Noble describes a local election in [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: BIG PICTURE: Case study: How Flickr can work on a local government website   1 week, 3 days ago
  

  
  via danslee.wordpress.com

  Dan Slee has blogged about how Walsall Council has used Flickr and its local community to spruce up its web pages. He has step by step information about what they did and what kind of things you need to consider as well [...]

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  Work Together wrote a new blog post: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s Virtual School   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  PDF Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s Virtual School

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  In the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea the difference in educational attainment of Looked After Children and other children is consistently smaller than in similar areas and the gap between the two cohorts has closed significantly over recent years. This can be largely attributed [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Councillors’ allowances and open data in the Granite City   2 weeks ago
  

  
  via flickr.com

  As far as I can tell, Aberdeen City Council is the first Scottish council to release open data. They’ve released councillors’ allowances and leisure facilities as machine readable data. (CSV) A good place to start. The first is [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Are you the lead?   2 weeks ago
  

  The LG Group has recently written to Heads of Finance, Policy and Performance and Communications to create a list of leads on the transparency and open data agenda, and in particular the publishing of expenditure data.

  If we missed you, please get in touch.

  The full text of the letter is below and it can also [...]