'Building Perfect Council Websites '09' A Huge Success

Now in its fifth year the event, held on Wednesday 15 July 2009 at Olympia 2 Conference Centre, central London, attracted some 310 delegates, a record attendance.

Delegates heard the secrets of creating easy to use, compelling and engaging web sites from a series of top speakers including Alasdair Mangham, Senior Responsible Officer, Local Directgov; Sharon Cooper, Director Proposition Strategy and Product Design, Directgov; Dane Wright, IT Strategy & Service Development Manager, London Borough of Brent; William Perrin, Founder, Talk About Local; Christine Sheldon, Web & IT Programme Manager, Exeter City Council; Pierre Morel, Engagement Manager, Point of Single Contact, BERR; Mary Reid, e-democracy consultant; Marco Ranon, Senior Web Accessibility Consultant, RNIB; and international web usability guru Gerry McGovern.

Full coverage will be carried in next week's issue of E-Government Bulletin. A partnership between E-Government Bulletin and the Socitm Insight Programme, this unique event draws on the collected wisdom of 10 years of Socitm's annual 'Better Connected' review of all UK council websites. To review this year's programme and access many of the presentations, see:
http://www.headstar-events.com/councilwebsites09/

And to see a website aggregating a great deal of the social networking activity around this year's event, including Twitter feeds (tag #pcw09), Flickr picture, Delicious links and blog postings, see:
http://www.pcw09.co.uk

Our gold sponsors once again this year were Jadu and the Local DirectGov Programme, with silver sponsors Alterian and Sitecore, with many other valued exhibitors and partners. Thanks to everyone who came, and to all our speaker, sposnors and exhibitors, and if you missed out this year, make sure you put the date in your diary for Building Perfect Council Websites '10 - Wednesday 14 July 2010.