Congratulations and well done to everyone at Spenta, you really deserved to win the Microsoft Public Sector Government partner of the year .  Glad to see you are highlighting it on your rather nice SharePoint based website :) http://www.spenta...

I was working with one of our teams in the Middle East to help them prepare for a presentation to a group of Government CIO’s around Gov2.0.  I put together some slides for them, got some background reading, example sites etc and sent it over. ...

At the Worldwide Partner Conference more details have just been announced around Windows Azure, the Microsoft Cloud Platform.  This short video is a really good and very clear view of what Windows Azure is, and how it works; well worth a quick watch...

There are three interesting posts this week from various sources around Social Media.  First one really underlines why it cannot be ignored.  After reading the post ‘Social media now more popular than personal email – Neilsen’ and looking at...

The BBC website has an article ‘ Twitter to give bushfire alerts ’ where it explains that after this years tragic bushfires in Victoria, the State will use Twitter in future to keep people up to date. I think that Twitter can be a huge help in these situations...

As reported on localgov.co.uk , Croydon council has had to suspend its use of Twitter after a member of the council staff used the account to criticise a reporter.  I find the statement they released slightly bizarre: A spokesman said: 'We need someone...

Like all things there are good and bad examples of Gov 2.0.  One of the main drivers for Gov 2.0 should be a reduction in cost of communication with citizens and I came across two separate examples with different outcomes. Spenta , a Spanish partner...