LGAM News

5000 Pages

Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:33:39 +0000

Just ticked over the 5000 page mark today. Quite a few of the 5000 are minor pages, and redirects, but it adds up to quite a lot of useful content all the same.

October 2013 Site Update

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:17:10 +0000

Quite a few milestones this month, with the number one milestone being the site's 5th birthday on October 13.

We also just cracked the 20,000 site visitors per month barrier this month, and we are up to 923,000 page views since the site was created.

There are now 762 site members and 161 content contributors.

May 2011 Site Update

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:23:31 +0000

13 more people joined the site in May bringing the total to 390.

The site was visited 11,333 times, which is a new record, and hopefully means more people are finding useful information here.

New Weekly Visitors Record

Mon, 23 May 2011 20:46:09 +0000

There were 3,109 site visitors last week, which is a new record.

According to Google Analytics, since the site was set up their has been.

107,737 Visits
90,397 Absolute Unique Visitors
304,999 Pageviews

April 2011 Site Update

Thu, 12 May 2011 02:56:27 +0000

12 new people joined the site in April 2011 bringing the total number to 376

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Matt Babaei
Tim Cornford
fblues
(account deleted)
Nagendra Shakya
PhilMc
methusela too
Andrew V
Michael Briggs
Adrian Ellson
Smick

The total number of site visitors was down slightly from March (probably because of the Easter holidays), but page views were up again with a site record 21,368 pages being viewed over the month.

Just updated the front page.

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:15:42 +0000

We have just updated the site's front page, and are interested to hear what people think about the new look.

Site Update No.4 (2011)

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:50:13 +0000

22 new people joined the site in March bringing the total to 365. Welcome to:

The site was visited 8,575 times in March 2011, for a total of 20,359 page views. (A new page view record.)

A further 96 pages were added to the site bringing the total number of pages to 3472.

Also special thanks this month to Danielle Danielsson who has volunteered to be a site administrator and has been busily adding site content, and firing up the forum.

FOSS Update

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:24:12 +0000

The Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base is a big believer in Free & Open Source Software (FOSS), so it great to hear there is some action happening in South Australia on the FOSS front.

Geospatial ICT Solutions is working with City of Holdfast Bay and the Eastern Regional Alliance on a suite of FOSS products for local government. It is early stages yet, but if successful it could be a really big deal for Local Government in the medium term.

An Open Source Local Government Software Suite is by-the-way sitting in the No.1 spot for ideas to make local government better, so there should be a fair bit of support for the project around the country.

Part of the project is AMOS - an Open Source Asset Management System. I believe that the AMOS developers will being keeping an eye on the AMS requirements section of the LGAM Asset Management System page, as they are building the system, so if you have any ideas about what functionality an Asset Management System should have please let us know, or edit the page yourself.

Site Update No.3 (2011)

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:18:20 +0000

24 new people joined the site in February bringing the total to 343. Welcome to:
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phillipA
leswhalley
Suzanne Charnock
Basia1607
begagis
HaroldPCC
Ulung
BenWright
Louise_RVC
David Paschane
cjajal
muzza69
Sue Sue
Kathy Conway
AFMSA
ddimartino
Mary Maher
Jan Swanepoel
Glen Frost (Frocomm)
DamienDouglas
Tim Taber
Mim Buchhorn
Peter Savage

The site was visited 9,645 times in February and 18,479 pages were viewed.

A further 87 pages were added to the site bringing the total number of pages to 3376.

Click here for more detailed site statistics.

Site Update No.2

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:40:37 +0000

We recently sent out an Asset Management Update to Councils via e-mail. This resulted in a record number of site visits (2613) & page views (5915) last week, and will hopefully translate into a few more people using & contributing to the site on a regular basis.

Three more ideas were added to the ideas page. If you like them, vote them up.

Quite a few other new pages, including those listed below were added to the site, bringing the total number of pages on the site to 3344

If you have any other page suggestions, please let us know.

Useful LInks

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:23:04 +0000

The folks at ACELG were kind enough to add this site to their list of useful links recently. This is greatly appreciated - in fact all links to the site are greatly appreciated, and we do our best to return the favour where we can. If you know of a site of interest to local government let us know and we will be happy to add a link to it.

There are already quite a few pages on the site that attempt to point you in the direction of other sites & projects of interest, including those listed below.

… but we are always looking for new ways to make local government more connected, so we thought a page devoted to the people behind the links might not be a bad idea.

If you know of someone who is doing their bit to connect local government, please let us know and we will add them to the people page.

Towards an Australian Government Information Policy

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:03:01 +0000

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has recently released an issues paper for comment, with a view to developing an Australian Government Information Policy. The draft principles align very nicely with some of what this site is trying to achieve and are well worth a read.

Comments on the draft principles can be made via the OAIC Blog.

Searching for Success

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:23:07 +0000

LGAM pages are now the top Google search result for 30+ local government related terms. This is great for the site, and a great example of how powerful free & open information sharing can be. It also shows that information hidden away behind a paywall or in a members only area is a lot harder to find than information placed in a public website. And it means when Local Government people search for information about subjects like Asset Management Plans or Gravel Resheeting or Kerb & Channel they are probably going to find it here rather than in a book or manual. Hopefully other organisations with information of value to Local Government take note, and start making their information more freely available too.

The graph below shows how the number of visits via search has increased over time.

January 2011 Update

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:48:38 +0000

6 more people joined the site in January bringing the total to 319.

As of 31 January 2011, the site has been visited on more than 73,400 occasions and just over 230,000 pages have been viewed. More people visited the site during January than in any previous month.

Local Government Reform Fund - Advancing Asset Management

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:39:35 +0000

The Queensland Government & LGAQ have just announced that they were successful in obtaining $2.7 million in funding from the Federal Government's Local Government Reform Fund to support Queensland Council's developing Core Asset Management Plans for key infrastructure assets.

2010-2011 Floods

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:04:01 +0000

A page has been created to share information about the 2010-2011 Floods. Please feel free to add to or edit the page.

December 2010 Update

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:32:18 +0000

8 more people joined the site in December bringing the total to 313.

leannem
Helen Benstead
davidoakgrov
jcranston
starrme
tom judge
Gago14
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According to the 2010 Google Analytics Report the site was visited 51,422 times in 2010 & 123,949 pages were viewed. This compares to 12,619 visits & 80,210 page views in 2009.

Wikis in Plain English

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:11:06 +0000

Just added this youtube video to the Wiki page. It explains wikis in plain English.
If any of you are still a bit unsure about what a wiki is it might be worth a look.

November 2010 Update

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:33:05 +0000

Nine more people joined the site in November, bring the total to 305. A big welcome to all of you.

The November 2010 Google Analytic Report shows that 7110 people visited the site in November which is a new record.

New site features implemented in November include the Ideas page, the Wish List and automatic Twitter updates.

Tweet Tweet

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:23:39 +0000

A Twitter button has been added to the bottom right of the main page. Please feel free to use Twitter to tell the world about the site.