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Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012
Neil Wholey - Six fantastic and free social media monitoring tools
The article is a list of six free social media monitoring tools that I regularly use and think are fantastic.
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Suzanne Halliwell - Internal Communications - essential not nice to have (1)
Suzanne Halliwell is Head of Communications and Marketing at Blackpool Council.
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Teresa Lane - High Speed Two – what line to take?
There’s nothing it seems like a good crisis or controversy to bring councils and communities together.
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Experts call for £200m saving on public notices (3)
LGcomms wants to see local authorities given more freedom to advertise statutory notices.
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Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011
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11:01 AM Jan 17th - LGinsight: Six fantastic and free social media monitoring tools from @neilwholey on our blog. Do you have any to add? http://t.co/Pl5JmWE4
11:01 AM Jan 17th - LGinsight: See our guest post by Fen Ripley on whether #localgov understands community engagement & consultation. Do you agree? http://t.co/3CHxBW72
13:12 PM Dec 6th - LGinsight: RT @neilwholey: Why #localgov is judged on how they explain council tax not just whether they freeze it via @lgcplus http://t.co/T6IW6QGd
14:11 PM Nov 25th - LGinsight: RT @barnardos: Our poll shows many people in the UK are at risk of giving up on children http://t.co/vPX5RzOE
12:11 PM Nov 3rd - LGinsight: RT @neilwholey: Key themes @LGinsight engagement workshop; honesty in consultation, connect Members with citizens and be creative not du ...
13:11 PM Nov 1st - LGinsight: Using Lego to build what we want in our communities with @TessyBritton some wonderful ideas coming out http://t.co/I3zIhD4C
13:11 PM Nov 1st - LGinsight: RT @JustinGriggs: Cool :-) RT @AnneTThomas: Wow, was entire programme for @LGinsight twitter sourced? #LGInsight
11:11 AM Nov 1st - LGinsight: RT @TessyBritton: "wanted: more candid consultation - tell the truth" from @rhionjones @LGinsight #consultationgeekery
11:11 AM Nov 1st - LGinsight: Great day ahead with @annetthomas @rebeccaeligon @joannebutcher @justingriggs @rhionjones @neilwholey on engagement http://t.co/oYLLSMEw
08:11 AM Nov 1st - LGinsight: RT @TCInews: TCI Director, @RhionJones is speaking at the @LGcomms @LGinsight event: 'Improving Community Engagement' on Tues 1 Nov http ...
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08:11 AM Nov 1st - LGinsight: RT @AnneTThomas: RT @TessyBritton Looking forward to this event tomorrow with @rebeccaeligon @LGinsight http://t.co/LYN8UdIJ - #engageme ...
08:11 AM Nov 1st - LGinsight: RT @neilwholey: Our new free report on how our award winning team does #comms evaluation can be downloaded here - http://t.co/bp2EkpLX # ...
11:10 AM Oct 27th - LGinsight: Three quarters of Councillors find opinion surveys useful when considering planning apps @Andrew_ComRes http://t.co/CykGVqCt
12:10 PM Oct 26th - LGinsight: RT @LariaNews: Have you seen our latest copy of LARIA eNews? It's out now http://t.co/1FRGyElq
12:10 PM Oct 13th - LGinsight: Have you booked your place at our 1st Nov Improving Community Engagement event? They are going fast #localgov http://t.co/oYLLSMEw
12:10 PM Oct 11th - LGinsight: Thanks to @simonwakeman for his great blog post on our research #localgov http://t.co/Bm7rDwkb
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09:10 AM Oct 6th
- LGcomms: Question: Should we take paid for adverts on local authority web sites? Yes or No? #lgcommscardiff #lgcomms
14:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: A big thanks to Kim Patterson for making today happen, by the way #lgcommscardiff
14:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: Really busy Q&A session now. Hot topics - resources, rotas, out of hours and getting started in social media #lgcommscardiff
14:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: RT @_garrilla: @LGcomms @jemmamoran #lgcommscardiff do you both know about #localgovcamp in Preston 4th Feb? More amazingness http://t. ...
14:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: #wmgrit uses CoveritLive to pull in multiple tweets from participating LA's Combined follower numbers of 40,000 @colebagski #lgcommscardiff
14:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: Brum's very own Geoff Coleman (@colebagski) up next talking the innovative #wmgrit #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: Rob Webb from @monmouthshirecc "staff have laptops, smartphones and ipads - we trust and empower them and we benefit..." #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: The key is using these tools to help people get what they want/need... @HelReynolds #lgcommscardiff Great presentation, thanks.
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: Recruited a new Head of Children's Sevices via a video (used it across social media platforms inc. Linkedin) @HelReynolds #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: During that Q&A the CEX was asked to disclose his salary - and he did, via Twitter... That's real transparency @HelReynolds #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: Tried live Q&A's with cabinet members. Taking questions via twitter and blog (increased blog traffic) @HelReynolds #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: "ICT barriers to overcome but in Jan 2011 social media was opened up to all stuff. And it's empowered them" @HelReynolds #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th - LGcomms: Lindsay Whittle is a fantastic, natural speaker and well received by the 60+ delegates here today in the beautiful Pierhead #lgcommscardiff
13:01 PM Jan 25th