New Blogger on LocalGov.co.uk

I'm pleased to announce that a new blogger has joined LocalGov.co.uk

Brendan McCarron is a well-known writer, consultant and trainer around local public services in the UK and abroad.

His interests include decision-making, leadership, strategic performance management, project management and service system improvement.

He'll be commenting on a wide range of issues relating to local government and you can read his views in his Cato the Younger blog.

New lists in MYB

The team has been quite busy of later hence why I have been a bit quiet on this blog. Apologies.

I do have some news for our directory users, though.

MYB Online now has some 5,500 extra contacts in the form of lower tier officers, covering service areas such as building services, lifelong learning, HR, emergency planning and transportation.

These names can be found by viewing council entries and clicking on 'tier two officers' in the entry overview.

We will be providing this data in the form of set lists for purchase in our list rental section in due course.

This is just one of many more exciting changes that we will be making to the directory section soon... watch this space!

Change to news home page

We have made a small change to the news home page.

In order to increase the number of news stories on this page, while retaining its 'clean' design, we have paginated our news articles which gives users 60 of our most recent news stories.

If you look at the bottom of the story list on the news home, you will now see a small navigation tool.

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Click on 'NEXT' or one of numbers and the news stories change without taking you away from page (Todays Papers, Soap Box and Comment sections remaining the same).

This means you can browse the most recent news articles in one or two clicks.