Local Government Web Network

Awesome tips by Renae Mason from the Powerhouse Museum on online community building

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The Cheezburger Network may seem like just a silly, oddball distraction from ‘real’ life, but it does demonstrate a few key rules of internet community engagement:

• Be responsive and timely
• Be willing to adapt and change as audience needs do
• Don’t be afraid to fail, as long as you…

Wollongong City Council have implemented RSS feeds across their site. Breaking up content across the feeds means that people are able to get targeted information on topics of their choice, such as events, road maintenance and sports ground alerts

We’ve all heard about the development of “Fix my Street” but Lichfield District Council in the UK has taken it a step further with “Fix my Tweet”

Excellent database of the use of Creative Commons licensing in Government (Via @Katska)

Great short article to help you decipher and deal with negative feedback you might recieve via social media channels.

The UK Government has released data.gov.uk to provide data for re-use by the public…

Interesting discussion on accessibility and rights

Tips, tricks and suggestion on how to approach organisations whose sites are not as accessible as they could be

A quick and dirty tool to assist you in measuring the usability of a site. Should not replace a proper review and testing but may assist you in finding issues.

Excellent blog post on the way JAWS, a popular screen reader renders tables…(via @ruthellison)