Social computing

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a Twitter channel for the British Prime Minister called Downing Street after the famous residence, number 10 Downing Street. The PMs media people are using it to provide instant updates to the press and anyone else who's interested. This got me thinking about how Twitter could be used in Local Government.

As I had hoped my head was buzzing with ideas after Web Directions Government, some great speakers from Australia and around the world presented. We'll do a post soon when all their presentations are available, but there's one I wanted to talk about now due to its relevance to a project I'm currently working on.