http://www.socitm.net/press Socitm Latest news Jadu CMS http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:07:11 +0000 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:07:11 +0000 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/28/andrew_mcmanus It was with great sadness that the Society learnt last week of the passing away of Andrew McManus... 2010-03-02T10:10:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/27/better_connected_2010 This year's report is available now to all Socitm Insight subscribers who have paid their 2010 subscriptions. 2010-03-01T10:15:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/26/twitter_gritters_new_briefing_shows_how_councils_are_using_the_web_and_social_media_to_help_manage_local_emergencies Councils are starting to use social networks like Facebook and Twitter as well as hyperlocal, community websites, to communicate with their residents and businesses when local emergencies arise. 2010-02-15T14:35:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/25/socitm_publishes_briefing_on_the_government_ict_strategy Socitm has published a briefing on the Government's ICT Strategy launched a couple of weeks ago. 2010-02-12T15:23:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/24/socitm_appoints_head_of_commercial_development Karl Grundy has joined Socitm in the newly-created role of Head of Commercial Development and Business Relationships. He joins Socitm from a similar role at mySociety. 2010-01-22T13:24:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/23/continued_it_budget_cuts_will_compromise_delivery_of_savings_elsewhere_says_it_trends_200910 This is the key finding of IT trends 2009/10: stretched to breaking point the latest edition of Socitm’s annual survey of IT trends in in local public services, published on 21 January. 2010-01-21T14:40:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/22/underperforming_websites_could_be_costing_councils_11m_a_month Underperforming websites could be costing UK councils collectively up to £11m a month as people unsuccessful in accessing online information and services turn instead to other channels. 2010-01-09T13:59:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/21/david_taylor_mp Socitm was sad to hear, on 27 December, of the sudden death of David Taylor MP. 2010-01-09T13:55:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/20/socitms_latest_policy_briefing_time_for_radical_change Local public service organisations should be looking at new and radical ways of managing and resourcing transformation and ICT - not just responding with traditional across-the-board cuts. 2009-12-18T12:47:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/15/scott_22_wins_graham_williamson_challenge_2009 IT Assistant Scott Mansfield, a member of the web team at Leeds City Council, has won this year’s Graham Williamson Challenge, Socitm’s learning-through-travel award. 2009-11-19T12:06:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/17/call_for_stories_around_web_takeup_customer_access_and_channel_shift Do you have projects that might be suitable to feature in a new Socitm Insight report on this topic? If so we want to hear from you, as we are starting work on a follow up report to Better marketed 2009-11-18T13:45:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/14/retrenchment_or_revolution_geoff_mulgan_at_socitm_09 "Council IT chiefs should aim to take a leadership role in the coming period of drastic cuts, which is likely to be one of both retrenchment and technological revolution." 2009-11-06T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/13/meet_socitms_new_head_of_membership_at_socitm_2009 Socitm has appointed a new Head of Membership. Ellen Jessett will be coming to Socitm 2009 (Edinburgh 11-13 October) to meet members ahead of her start date on November 1. 2009-10-08T12:13:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/12/speaker_lineup_finalised_for_socitm_2009 Details of all 24 speaker sessions at Socitm 2009 have now been finalised and are published on this website. 2009-09-18T12:08:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/18/your_views_sought_on_proposed_new_ranking_system_and_updated_assessment_criteria_for_better_connected Our proposals for a new ranking system and updated assessment criteria for Better connected, our annual survey of all local authority websites are now available to download. 2009-08-13T10:36:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/9/graham_williamson_travel_award_09_ict_professionals_sought Entries in the Graham Williamson Challenge, Socitm’s travel award for people starting out on their career in ICT or a related discipline, are now open. The closing date is August 31. 2009-07-17T22:00:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/8/socitm_gives_qualified_welcome_to_digital_britain_final_report Socitm has welcomed the Digital Britain report’s commitment to universal broadband as a key enabler for the ‘Digital Switchover’ to public services available exclusively online. 2009-07-17T20:07:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/19/customer_access_improvement_service_briefing_2 This is the second half-yearly briefing and results summary from the Customer Access Improvement Service. We report on results collected in March 2009... 2009-07-02T11:09:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/7/congratulations ...to Socitm Wales chair Phil Evans (pictured) who was awarded an MBE for services to local government in the Queen’s Birthday honours. 2009-06-19T17:02:00+01:00 http://www.socitm.net/news/article/6/branding_update_for_socitm The Socitm Board has agreed an update to the organisation’s visual identity to reflect the way Socitm has evolved over the last 18 months. 2009-06-19T16:54:00+01:00