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Socitm appoints Head of Commercial Development
Friday 22nd January 2010
Karl Grundy has joined Socitm in the newly-created role of Head of Commercial Development and Business Relationships. He joins Socitm from a similar role at mySociety.
Continued IT budget cuts will compromise delivery of savings elsewhere says IT Trends 2009/10
Thursday 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.
Underperforming websites could be costing councils £11m a month
Saturday 9th January 2010
Underperforming websites could be costing UK councils collectively up to £11m a month as people unsuccessful in accessing online information and services turn instead to other channels.
David Taylor MP
Saturday 9th January 2010
Socitm was sad to hear, on 27 December, of the sudden death of David Taylor MP.
Socitm's latest policy briefing: time for radical change
Friday 18th December 2009
Local public service organisations should be looking at new and radical ways of managing and resourcing transformation and ICT - not just responding with traditional across-the-board cuts.
Scott, 22, wins Graham Williamson Challenge 2009
Thursday 19th November 2009
IT Assistant Scott Mansfield, a member of the web team at Leeds City Council, has won this year’s Graham Williamson Challenge, Socitm’s learning-through-travel award.
Call for stories around web takeup, customer access and channel shift
Wednesday 18th November 2009
Do you have projects that might be suitable to feature in a new Socitm Insight report on this topic? If so we want to hear from you, as we are starting work on a follow up report to Better marketed
Retrenchment or revolution? Geoff Mulgan at Socitm 09
Friday 6th November 2009
"Council IT chiefs should aim to take a leadership role in the coming period of drastic cuts, which is likely to be one of both retrenchment and technological revolution."
Meet Socitm’s new Head of Membership at Socitm 2009
Thursday 8th October 2009
Socitm has appointed a new Head of Membership. Ellen Jessett will be coming to Socitm 2009 (Edinburgh 11-13 October) to meet members ahead of her start date on November 1.
Speaker lineup finalised for Socitm 2009
Friday 18th September 2009
Details of all 24 speaker sessions at Socitm 2009 have now been finalised and are published on this website.
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