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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: City of Toronto – We want it!   [Use GMT Timezone] ago
  

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  Here’s a fun social media example for a Friday. The City of Toronto lets its residents know how to recycle old electronic equipment in style [...]

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  Work Together wrote a new blog post: Social Innovation Lab for Kent   1 day, 21 hours ago
  

  

  PDF Social Innovation Lab for Kent

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  The stimulus for creating SILK, the Social Innovation Lab for Kent came from a review of Kent County Council’s approach to policy making in 2007. This highlighted persistent difficulties in [...]

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  Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Saving millions? There’s an app for that   3 days, 22 hours ago
  

  
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  The LGA has just released a report on how councils are using tech to save millions. It features a number of examples on how geo-spatial data has been packaged up in apps to help local people access services more conveniently [...]

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

  
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  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   1 week, 2 days ago
  

  PDF Warrington Borough Council transport case study July 2010

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  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, 6 days 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   2 weeks 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   2 weeks, 2 days ago
  

  
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  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   2 weeks, 2 days ago
  

  
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  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 [...]