Socitm Insight

Better connected 2010

1st March 2010

This year's report is available now to all Socitm Insight subscribers who have paid their 2010 subscriptions.

Twitter gritters: new briefing shows how councils are using the web and social media to help manage local emergencies

15th February 2010

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.

Continued IT budget cuts will compromise delivery of savings elsewhere says IT Trends 2009/10

21st January 2010

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.