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A day in the life of Tim Adams and the connection between LG Inform and LG Inform Plus / LG Inform API
Please find below an interview with Tim Adams from the LGA about LG Inform plus and LG Inform API, please post any questions you have to this blog and Tim will be happy to answer thenmfor you. ...
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Alexandra Marshall
Last updated:  04 Oct 2013
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Rise to the Local Government Challenge 2014!
Now in its fifth year, the Local Government Challenge is a high profile national competition for aspiring top managers in local government. The search is on for ten contestants to take part...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  02 Oct 2013
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LG Inform copying, editing and sharing reports
£3.99 for a notebook! When did paper get so expensive, laptopless on a 2 hour train journey, I thought it would an ideal time to write a long overdue blog about LG Inform. I had unrealistic...
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Alexandra Marshall
Last updated:  01 Oct 2013
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Quick access to public health tools
Public Health England have developed a data and knowledge gateway that provides direct access to their wide range of data and analysis tools and resources. The tools include the popular public...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  30 Sept 2013
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Informing local understanding of health and wellbeing
Through the Health and Wellbeing System Improvement Programme we are bringing together key comparative information on health and wellbeing, and the wider issues that affect it. This is to support...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  10 Oct 2013
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Easy Tiger
It's a jungle out there, that's why some politicians are referred to as “big beasts". This is intended as flattery as it means they stand out from the herd and command respect rather than...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Sept 2013
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Are knowledge worker skills key to the future of project managers?
Knowledge workers are often the core of your organisation. According to Thomas Davenport, “Knowledge workers have high degrees of expertise, education, or experience, and the primary purpose of...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  25 Sept 2013
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The job security of a football manager
Another (football) manager loses their job not in itself news worthy unless of course it's related to some bizarre or scandalous behaviour like banning mayonnaise or banging the physio's wife on...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Sept 2013
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Regulatory Services development module for Councillors
It's been a year in development, but I am now pleased to say that our free online module for councillors is now available at http://tinyurl.com/regmodule This new online resource for all...
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Ian Leete
Last updated:  06 Nov 2013
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How much will it cost for you to go quickly and quietly?
The new chairman of the board tells the chief executive there are way too many senior managers in what has become a top heavy organisation. The new board intends to bring in a more businesslike...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  20 Sept 2013
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Career advice: be opinionated, abrasive and intolerant
Opinionated”, “abrasive” and “intolerant” of those less able and committed’: these were the words my placement supervisor used to describe me as a trainee. They came to mind when I was recently...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  19 Sept 2013
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The difficult financial climate has thrown up a new range of HR challanges
The difficult financial climate has thrown up a new range of HR challenges.   Management is still about managing budgets and managing people, it is still about promoting good practise and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Sept 2013
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OurDay 2013 - let's celebrate local government together!
#OurDay – 17 October 2013 What is #OurDay? It’s a 24 hour tweetathon to raise the profile of the great work that happens every day in local councils and shout about the unsung heroes who work...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  09 Sept 2013
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Theme parks go digital
As more and more services are designed to provide interactive experiences that you can control, it makes going places and doing things easier and quicker. You know what to expect and you can plan...
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Dimple Rathod
Last updated:  03 Sept 2013
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What can we learn from Gordon Ramsay about employee engagement?
Gordon Ramsay’s reputation in the kitchen is that of a tyrant, someone who shouts, swears and is generally pretty unpleasant to his staff. Not necessarily conducive to good employee engagement...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  03 Sept 2013
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From pool side to in at the deep end
So it's back to work. The return to work following the bank holiday weekend also signals the end of the holiday season so everyone's back and its heads down until Christmas. Why is it that once...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Aug 2013
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Its got your name on it
The latest business model for the public sector to imitate involves the idea of personalisation. I am not talking about the current practise in social care where the individual is given the money...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Aug 2013
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Bugs and batteries, what can you send?
If you have posted a parcel in the past few weeks the chances are you were asked what’s inside. The first time I was asked I thought the Clerk was being a bit nosey;  in fact the...
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Richard Overy
Last updated:  20 Aug 2013
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Innovation
Why is it that innovation happens in some places and not others? Is it about having the right strategic plan? Is it about a shared vision, a common set of priorities or is it to do with budgets?...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Aug 2013
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Whose responsibility is employee communication anyway?
Today I stumbled across an interesting discussion on Twitter: #nzlead. Turns out it’s a tweet chat that happens every week on a Thursday, originating in New Zealand, but generating responses...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  15 Aug 2013
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