We are hosting this year’s Local and Regional Government Solutions forum in Bilbao on the 22nd and 23rd April. The site is up and running here and if you want to come along please speak to your local Microsoft rep, or contact Claire Bibby ( cbibby@microsoft...

I have to admit, I do think Wordle is great. It is a really interesting way of viewing what is being talked about in blogs, web pages etc. Thought I would run it against this blog and this is what it produces: It would be interesting to see how...

There has been an recent announcement from Google that they have extended GMail to work offline in the browser using Google Gears.  As Steve Clayton points out in the post ‘Google Talks Software plus Services’ this is a great example and endorsement...

Boris Johnson the Mayor of London is now on twitter.   However, just because you are on twitter does not make you Gov 2.0.   1,318 people following you, and you are following no-one? Not very Gov 2.0.  OK, so lets tell Boris; lets feedback...

Edelman a global PR firm has released a whitepaper entitled ‘Barack Obama’s Social Media Toolkit’ , which takes a really good look at some of the lessons learnt from the campaign.  It lays these lessons out in 10 key learnings that can easily be...

Funny that you tend never to notice things in your own back yard!  After scouring the world for good examples of Gov 2.0, I realised that the 10 Downing Street web site is pretty good. It is a good clean looking site with blogs, speeches and transcripts...

With the inauguration of Barack Obama today in Washington, Web 2.0 has really come of age.  From the very first moment the campaign started for President, the use of Social Networking stood out from campaigning methods of old – and it delivered....

We are now twittering… http://twitter.com/OtherJamesBrown . Lets see how it goes!

  It was a really fantastic experience being involved in the launch of CSP in April 2008, and has been a hectic year trying to keep up with it!  Over the last few months we have been working on our technical strategy as we move into 2009. The...

A number of articles caught my eye recently about the double edge sword that is environmental sustainability and IT. Firstly for the good news – there is a huge amount that we in the IT industry can do to help.  Everything from advanced power settings...

The W3C has ratified a new 2.0 version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ( WCAG ). The version WCAG 1.0 has been around since 1999 and had 3 levels A, AA and AAA to cover off different levels of conformance, with most organizations going for...