A new website makes purchasing local outdoor advertising simpler for councils, PCTs and other local public service organisations.

Why agile delivery is important in public sector communications – as demonstrated by the web team from the newly-formed Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

My live blog from the second session at the Public Sector Forums web 2.0 conference.

Notes from the first two presentations at today’s conference.

The impact of social media extends well beyond learning to use new communications tools.

Some examples of how Twitter could be used in the public sector.

I’ll be talking at three conferences during March and April on local government communications and social media.

Creating a page on Facebook doesn’t mean a council is using the social network effectively for communicating.

Some interesting findings from Edelman’s annual trust and credibility survey.

Three local government websites that show a new direction for councils online.

Birmingham’s social media community has shown the public sector how to consult more effectively online.

Exploring how social media could be used to enhance the citizen-resident interactions in council meetings.

A bumper round-up of interesting content I’ve seen on the web in the past few days.

Steph Gray has created a superb tool for collecting examples of public sector social media in the UK.

I’m thinking about whether councils should have a website at all. Is there a better way for local government to interact using the web?

A new study looking at social media and local government is consistent with the findings of my CIPR research on the same topic.

Next month I’ll be running a workshop session at Northern Conference in Newcastle looking at podcasting in the public sector.

Edelman launched its eighth annual Trust Barometer this morning in London. The survey looks at how well trusted individuals and organisations are among 3,100 “opinion formers” across 18 countries.

The Central Office of Information (COI) is the UK government’s centre of excellence for marketing and communications. In this email interview Jamie Galloway, COI’s Director of Digital Media, talks about how the UK government uses digital media in its campaigns.

I’m very excited as today’s a big day: we’re launching the first real podcast from a local authority in the UK.

Social media is all about making connections. And yesterday once again I experienced this in real life.

The new Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT) website has just launched. The site was designed and build by the team at Netsite, and I acted as website consultant for the folks at the PCT.