These are my links for June 27th through June 30th: Poynter Online – Youtube Launches Citizen reporter Support – The site has just unveiled a new effort to improve and promote videos that are newsworthy: the Reporters' Center. The Reporters' Center launched Monday with about 35 instructional videos from professional journalists on how to handle …
Handsworth, Lozells, Twitter and Community Consultation
On Saturday I popped up to Handsworth for a community consultation event. John Heaven, a council officer, was there live blogging with this wordpress site that he created literally as the event started. John and I also tweeted the event (using different tags – doh) and you can find the streams for the event here …
Stuff I've seen June 21st through June 23rd
These are my links for June 21st through June 23rd: eGov monitor – A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance – Helen MIlner: "I actually trust Lord Carter’s vision. There is no doubt there remains considerable work to be done to move Digital Britain from paper to practice, to balance the books and to …
Derbyshire County Council elections – a social media experiment.
Above is Sarah Lay from Derbyshire County Council talking about her recent experience of using social media to tell the story of the council elections of 4th June 2009. As SOCITM the organisations which represents the folk who run council websites, puts it: County Councils saw their web traffic double last Friday and Saturday thanks …