Talk to Building Perfect Council Websites 2012 - was asked to show some examples of cheap, simple services that could be used to innovate for local authorities.

1. Innovating for impact (with no money)
Building Perfect Council Websites2012
National Motorcycle Museum
12 July 2012
William Perrin
@willperrin
http://talkaboutlocal.org/ar

2. Motorcylce museuam relevant
background in civic action
Stolen moped Grand Prixs c2002
Bingfield Park
Kings Cross
Most Saturdays when Arsenal at home
End with traditional moped bonfire Pics – Mark Bailey

3. Still locked into older CMS and
complex web of transactional
services Low risk low cost
Local procurement remains slow innovation
Budgets USA mobile market
Improvise
about to pass 50%
shrinking smart phone
drastically penetration
Council senior
Startling shift to mobile executives keep
having bright
Customers expectations keep leaping ideas
ahead

4. We all need to share the pain
in an age of austerity – the
web budget is cut by 30%
Oh dear – I can manage as long as
they don’t want any new stuff. But
that’s not likely to happen.

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mafleen/5280368304/sizes/l/in/photostream/

6. We need to talk to people
online we can’t afford as
much print or traditional
consultation
Help people find their own voice
online without me having a moderation
and tech support liability

7. Give people skills not a
platform
Talk About Local trains
people to find their own
voice online for their
communities that they own
and run
Camden Council, Broxtowe
Borouch Council, Cambs
County Council, Cabinet
Office, NESTA etc

8. We need a mobile app for
our staff to communicate on
the go as roving eyes and
ears of the council
Many already have own smart phones
all have camera phones – need mobile
and desktop solution for diverse use
cases

9. Street reporting – n0tice
new hugely flexible
platform developed by
GMG
Create noticeboard for
area
Use employee phones
smart or camera
All geo tagged
http://n0tice.com

10. Neighbourhood plans are
coming. We need a
something on the web to
help residents work to with
planners to draw them up
Need to visualise built environment
and provided shared work space for
public and council staff as peers

11. Google SketchUp (now
by Trimble) for 3D
visualistion
Use Google Earth
landscapes/terrain to
insert visualisations
Use Blogger or
Wordpress.com as the
discussion space
Google Docs for
drafting the plan and
managing documents

12. Van Heckler http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=340952&page=14

13. Get me some Google glass
goggle things
I saw this thing in Wired....
The in flight magazine had
this amazing...
A new way of showing people what is
happening to the place around them

14. http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/ar/
Talk About Local has a
very simple approach to
augmented reality – just
paste in an RSS feed of
content with geo tags
and walk away.
Click, copy, paste forget.
New posts with geotags
in your feed
automatically upload to
Layar – with click
through to your site and
‘take me there’
directions

15. Talk About Local provides consulting, training and business services to help people
understand local grass roots media – please contact us for help
This work funds our public service mission to help people in isolated or deprived
communities find a voice online
Check out our new project helping the unemployed use a better online profile to
seek work at http://networkingforwork.org.uk/
And http://talkaboutlocal.org
contact - hello@talkaboutlocal.org
@willperrin