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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Saving millions? There’s an app for that 3 days, 22 hours ago
via flickr.comThe 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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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Cllr Andrew Wallis: councillor blog 1 week ago
via cllrandrewwallis.blogspot.comMost 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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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.ukKensington 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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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Social beats cash: a local campaign case study 2 weeks, 2 days ago
via flickr.comIt 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.
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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
via danslee.wordpress.comDan 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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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Councillors’ allowances and open data in the Granite City 2 weeks, 6 days ago
via flickr.comAs 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? 3 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 [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Twenty-three things: collaborative knowledge for Library 2.0 3 weeks ago
via flickr.comI’ve just seen in the Social Media Community of Practice that folks from four separate local authorities are collaborating on guidance on social media for the public sector in a wiki.
They’re only just starting off, but there’s [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Derbyshire Reading Detectives’ Blog 3 weeks, 3 days ago
via readingdetectives.wordpress.comDerbyshire is using both a wordpress blog and a Facebook page to support a reader development programme on literature in your local area.
I love seeing mentions of the places I lived and loved in books, so a [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Three opportunities to explore the benefits of open data 3 weeks, 6 days ago
The Transparency Programme is focused first on helping local authorities to release expenditure data and other required sets by January. Getting the data out there, open, re-usable and done as easily as possible – addressing redaction, licensing and the impacts of releasing expenditure data.
It’s also focused on making this data useful to local authorities [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Kirklees: changing lifestyle using social media 4 weeks ago
via flickr.comThere’s a new case study on the LG Improvement and Development website covering use of social media in Kirklees for tackling obesity and unhealthy lifestyles which focuses on their use of Facebook:
Students in an area of West Yorkshire are [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: The first post 1 month ago
The LGA Group, Socitm, CIPFA and LeGSB are working together through a Transparency Programme to help local government meet the requirements of openly publishing expenditure data and to help local public services achieve the democratic, economic and improvement benefits of open data.
Throughout Autumn of 2010 we will do [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: San Francisco App Showcase 1 month ago
via datasf.orgSan Francisco has a showcase of applications using open data. And I’ve featured London’s before here, too. San Francisco has got lots of interesting and useful apps, including one I’ve been wanting for ages but which there just [...]
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Ingrid Koehler and Breda Doherty are now friends 1 month ago
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Ingrid Koehler created the blog Local transparency 1 month ago
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Ingrid Koehler created the blog Local transparency 1 month ago
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Bookstart Bear visits Herculaneum and blogs! 1 month ago
via flickr.comMe, I love a library blog. It just seems such a natural fit. I’ve just spotted the Plymouth Libraries blog which is focused on reading for the Under-5s. It’s got reviews of children’s book and links to [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Winchester Museums 1 month, 1 week ago
via flickr.comLike many council museums services, Winchester is using a range of well-known social media channels – like Flickr to promote its collections and events. Not so much on the social media, but it does have a beautiful website helping [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Suffolk trading standards blog 1 month, 1 week ago
via flickr.comSuffolk Trading Standards have set up a WordPress blog sharing all kinds of useful, trading standards type info…e.g. reminders about what you can and can’t sell at a car boot sale and with updates about what they’ve been [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Facebook campaigns: Parking in the park 1 month, 1 week ago
via flickr.comThe previous government proposed to introduce charges in Richmond Park, the largest enclosed park in Europe and an oasis of calm in the hustle and bustle of London.
Park users who were used to a free parking in several lots [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Jammin’ in Coventry 1 month, 1 week ago
via 24dash.comCoventry City Council – famed in social media circles for probably the most successful localgov Facebook page in the UK – has done some more groundbreaking work in online participation and collaboration.
According to 24dash – the council [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: New York Public Library 1 month, 2 weeks ago
via flickr.comThe New York Public Library may well be the queen of municipal libraries. Featured in films and fabled among the public radio listening classes of the US, I’ve admired it from afar my whole life even though I’ve never climbed [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: flytip 2 months ago
via flickr.comHere’s some ‘flytipping’ near me – illegal dumping of trash. This happened yesterday sometime in the evening near my home. Like many such examples round my way, it’s sort of ‘handyman’ rubbish. Small jobbing builders or [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: The Pie Of Time « Crimespotting in San Francisco 2 months, 1 week ago
via blog.crimespotting.orgNo matter where you live, the crime profile shifts over a 24 hour period, but it’s probably most noticeable in large urban areas. What’s perfectly safe near where I live at 10am is actually a crime hot spot at [...]
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Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Next American City » Columns » Crowdsourcing Public Data 2 months, 1 week ago
via americancity.orgIn an article online magazine Next American City there’s a column on Crowdsourcing Public Data on the stock of trees in a city.
In an era of tight public budgets, cities need all the help they can get. Crowdsourcing is one strategy [...]
