My experience of CCs is mostly in Edinburgh and Fife – these LAs regularly supply their CCs with lists of planning applications, in line with CCs being statutory consultees for spatial planning. So I assumed that all LAs did so, and so assumed that lack of planning material on CC websites was due to the CCs themselves – either they chose not to or found themselves incapable of doing so.
I realised I needed a place to store resources about how CCs can use the internet and other interesting things. Then I realised that it would be worth sharing these. So I’ve just created a page to do just that.
The first section is about writing for the web. There’s only a couple of resources so far, but it will grow. The next section will be LA community council schemes and other interesting information culled from LA websites. After that – who knows?
It was pleasing to receive another response to our report, mostly because of its format. The responder’s email address clearly indicated his/her position (a CC member) and name, and the actual community council. Better still, the header and footer reaffirmed this information, and included the CC’s contact address, web address and a phone number. This CC is in a relatively large town – the header and footer stated which part of the town this CC represented. Continue reading
We’ve received some great feedback from Community Council webmasters on our report. Thank you! This feedback got me thinking about engagement routes, what people want and sustainability. Continue reading
The results of our 2014 survey of Community Councils’ internet use have gathered some interest, especially after Peter wrote about the massive churn in online presences.
(Click the graphic to see a full-sized PDF.)
The rings’ outer diameters represent the numbers in each status in 2014. Inner diameters represent the amount of ‘churn’, i.e. the sum of the numbers that left or entered this status since 2012.
A terabyte HD in my main Mac (‘IGGY’) has died, so now the Mac has only four storage devices. Fortunately it’s no threat to my data – this HD was used until a few months ago for TimeMachine backups of this mac but now all the Macs here do TimeMachine backups to a very new 2TB TimeCapsule.* The TM sparsebundles were copied to the new TimeCapsule so we’ve not lost any backup history. Continue reading
He’s put it into words which are much better than what I could write.
So the RFC project – surveying community council online presences is all over apart from the shouting publicising it and writing a paper or two for a peer-reviewed journal. Celebrations thereof to be arranged. Continue reading
I need an online home for my dissertation, so here it is:
Bruce's IT-ish world 