Mashups and More: Mike Saunt’s presentation

July 9, 2009 by Ian Cuddy 

Mike Saunt from Astun Technology, our second speaker in the mid-morning session, covered the Web 2.0 areas of Social, Technology and Mashups, looking at how and why the Government’s view of information has changed from that of ‘owners’ to ‘custodians’.  Though social media is rapidly changing the way the public sector communicate with citizens, he underlined the need not to overlook more traditional forms of communication:  “Cool technologies shouldn’t be the only form of access.”  A highlight of his presentation was a live mash-up demo’ing the bringing together of planning alerts and Google Maps, giving a glimpse of the potential of Web 2.0 technologies and approaches.

See Mike’s slides below:

Mash Ups and We’re Not Talking Potatoes

(Mike has finally been convinced to join the Twittersphere - so we’re sure you’ll welcome him by following @skepticmike!)

P.S. More on Jack Pickard’s blog here.

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