Cllr Andy Maric is a Next Generation participant and this is his website

When you become a councillor you are entering a profession (if you can call it that) unlike any other. You don’t need any specified qualifications or experience for the job and rather than being accountable to one boss, the only people who can fire (or re-hire) you are thousands of your neighbours, most of whom you will never have met for more than a couple of minutes on the doorstep.

You become familiar with stories in the local papers that slate you for expecting to get any sort of reimbursement for the time you spend on the job, or even for claiming the basic out of pocket expenses such that most employees would take for granted (and we aren’t talking about moat cleaning here).  But even as a back bench councillor, you are taking some of the most important decisions in our communities.

Being a councillor is demanding. Councillors are often expected to feel selfless, like they should know how to do everything that is demanded of them already or they are not worthy of their title. But, as with any role, we know that a little in professional development goes a long way, and with the challenges that lie ahead for local government, should we really be expecting councillors to be perfect leaders, representatives and public servants without this support?

The Next Generation leadership programme was devised by the Leadership Centre for Local Government to fill this gap and is now run through the Local Government Group. In their own words, it: “ensures councillors have the right skills to transform into the sort of leaders required to reinvigorate the local political scene.” And since 2006, young and ambitious councillors from the three main political parties have been put through their paces to do just this. I attended the second co-hort of the programme (2007/8), when I was already in a local leadership position on Islington Council. I found the dynamic challenge of Joe Simpson and Erica Kemp important in helping me develop my strategic thinking, creating a space that was often lost in the day-to-day pull of speeches, meetings, reports and press releases. So I was excited when I received an invitation to run a workshop with this year’s cohort on using social networks to engage with local communities.

Next Generation Councillors discussing how to use social media to engage with local communities

As I wrote in this blog here, there is a lot that I have picked up about how social media can be used on a local level from working at FutureGov that I wish I had known I was a councillor. I was pleased for the opportunity to share some of my learnings with people who could make use of this. But, as soon as I arrived in the room in the University of Warwick Conference Centre it was clear that things had moved on from my day (my day ended two years ago) – nearly 50% of the councillors were sitting there using iPads to take notes and deliver their presentations.

The Next Generation course is all about getting councillors to think about how they are using their values to drive the work that they do everyday. Having run a number of sessions about social media with local councillors, I know that this topic can evoke a fear of losing control, so I set out to challenge this group reminding them that controlling and secretive behaviours do not fit in with their Liberal Democrat political beliefs of open and democratically run government.

These words are all taken from the Preamble to the Liberal Democrat Constitution, that features on their membership cards

Almost all of these words above, from the Liberal Democrat constitution, are very relevant to social engagement, but “open” particularly stands out, as does this quotation from Nick Clegg’s speech, The Open Society and its Enemies, delivered in December 2011:

The liberal ideal is of the open society, where power is vested in people, not in the state or other institutions.

And social media is an ideal tool to achieve that shift of power, as Ingrid Koehler points out in Connected Councillors:

The important thing to remember about social media is that it’s social. It’s about communication. It’s about putting the transformative power of the printing press into the hands of the people.

A quotation which sounds a little bit like a line out of the famous Liberal song, the Land, that is sung late at night on the last evening of every Liberal Democrat conference.

After taking the group back to basics on their Liberal Democrat values, we jumped into a discussion about why councillors should use social media to engage with their communities. Answers ranged from meeting the needs of people using Google to find out information about them at election time and being able to communicate with journalists. I also shared some of the reasons that I had learned about: the conversation is already happening be part of it; it is quick and cheap way to communicate with and listen to residents; being a councillor is about building relationships; and it is important to be open about the work we do as councillors.

I then asked the councillors how they should use social media and what tips they would share other councillors about this. The councillors worked in groups to discuss their ideas and generated the following answers: take part in local community social media groups; use the free tool Mailchimp to produce email newsletters for your ward and to monitor who is reading them; create a non party political site to broaden interest to residents who wouldn’t go on a political one; if you are finding it hard to find local residents on Twitter, tap into local businesses’ Twitter followers; establish a non party political local area Facebook site, e.g. one for your town – this  can be used to introduce new candidates as community activists; and share details of your casework via Twitter and Facebook, including photographs.

Cllr Victor Chamberlain uses his blog to update residents about current planning applications

I was impressed to hear from a young councillor who had stared a cartoon blog (although I can’t find the link to it now – please let me know as I’d love to see it!) and his colleague who had used the URL Brympton.info as the link to his ward website, so that anyone searching for information about his local area arrives at his site. I was slightly more intrigued by another who had started a Facebook page for his city and had built up a huge following and 6500 likes, without people knowing that he was behind the page.

After sharing some style tips for councillors using social media: Little and often, clear and relevant; an interactive, rather than broadcast, style; human and authentic; and appropriate to you and your voters – I returned to the fear issue.

Some councillors fear the consequences of using social media

I shared a quotation that I had heard on the radio, in the context of scientists who are afraid to collaborate, but I think the observation applies equally to politicians who are afraid of sharing information and connecting with people on social media:

By shutting the door you keep more out than you keep in.

It is often the case that councillors miss out on really engaging with the public by being guarded about what they disclose online for fear of how the opposition parties will use it.

I then ran through some suggestions of how councillors could use their roles to encourage their local authorities to become more open and to make the data that they collect available to those who want to use it – in the spirit of open government and the council not always having all of the good ideas within a community.  I also suggested using social media (i.e. Facebook groups) to make traditional community development easier for councillors – the kind of community development that is about real things like improving local parks and housing estates. Work like this is particularly important for local Liberal Democrat councillors to lead, at a time when the national ratings aren’t going to win them many local elections.

I finished the session by asking each of the councillors to pledge what they would do next to improve the way they used the internet to engage with their local residents – and because I am aware of the reputation Liberal Democrats now have when it comes to pledges, thanks to one big mistake from the parliamentary party, I asked them to email their pledges to me, so that I can remind them of what they committed to do in a month’s time.

Time to make your pledges

The annual party conferences are big dates in the diaries of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative politicians and activists from up and down the country, so this year Dominic and I from TweetyHall / FutureGov along with our friends from On Road Media and OPM, decided to book our train tickets, pack our pocket video recorders and join them.

For those of you not familiar with the set up of party conferences in the UK, there are the debates and the speeches that take place in the main conference hall, but there are also hundreds of meetings held by charities, companies and other special interest groups held outside of this, on the fringe, all vying to attract conference delegates through the door.  The theme of our series of fringe meetings this year was: “Local, Social, Digital – How can we use innovative approaches to engage citizens in communities and democracy?”

Our first event was held at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Birmingham on Sunday 18th October, where we were joined by speakers Julian Huppert MP, Mark Pack (Lib Dem Voice Editor) and Cllr Daisy Benson (Liberal Democrat group leader on Reading Borough Council).  We decided to depart from the usual fringe meeting format of speeches from the front and then questions from the audience – the theme of the series was innovative approaches after all. Instead, we started the meeting with the speakers joining the audience members in group discussions and then feeding back what they had heard to the rest of the room at the end, with Emma Maier from the Local Government Chronicle ably chairing the meeting.

Here is a video clip of discussions about the use of Facebook in politics and government:

And Twitter:

The speakers then shared some of their own experiences, including Mark Pack, who spoke about councils not collecting residents’ e-mail addresses; Cllr Daisy Benson, who shared her experience of using social media to target local residents and Julian Huppert MP, who talked about how Twitter enables you to have a conversation with constituents, but warned of the limitations of thinking that the views of people on Twitter are the views of everyone.  You can read more about this meeting on the FutureGov blog post here.

Then a few hours later, many more Liberal Democrat councillors and activists joined us, and social media training guru Nathalie McDermott from On Road Media, to learn about how to use social media more effectively in our Social Media Clinic, running as part of the Liberal Democrat Conference campaign training programme.

The following week, we headed up to Liverpool in the glorious sun on 28th September for our second Local, Social, Digital meeting, this time at the Labour Conference. We were lucky to have secured popular and outspoken MP, Tom Watson, who pleased the crowds with his tales of using the Freedom of Information Act as an opposition politician to run rings around the current government by obtaining information on the content of the Government wine cellar.  Tom has been a longstanding champion of the digital cause, including during his time as a minister, and fielded many questions from Labour party activists keen to hear more of his wise words. You can see Tom’s speech on this video:

Mark Ferguson, editor of LabourList, then spoke about his experience of using social media to access real people. He said that the best channels are Facebook and e-mail, because: “You have to fish where the fish are” – i.e. most people do use Facebook and e-mail, but Twitter is used by a smaller segment of people, mainly those with a bigger interest in politics. Cllr Catherine McDonald, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services at Southwark Council shared her experiences of using social media to join in conversations that are already happening in her local area, and of using Twitter. She advised the audience to focus on building up a local following, so that they are not just tweeting away with no one reading their Tweets.  You can read more about Local, Social, Digital – Labour here.

Finally, we left London basking in an unseasonal October heatwave, and headed to rainy Manchester for the Conservative Party Conference.  Again, a line up of well known speakers attracted the a good number of the party faithful and led to another lively set of discussions about the uses of social media and other innovative tools to engage people:

Rishi Saha, the former Head of Digital at Number 10, told the meeting that whatever you want to do on on the web, someone will have done it before. He recommended that people look at and learn from good examples, such as those profiled on Facebook Studio.  He encouraged the those present to cut through cynicism by getting the statistics about the number of local residents in their area using Facebook (which is likely to be high): “We need to dispel the myth that the use of social media is just for young people. It’s not.”

At all three of the fringe meetings, we encountered councillors and activists who were very concerned about the risks that were presented to politicians by letting down their guard on social media, which is unsurprising considering the scare stories that some of us have heard. But Kate Day, Social Media Editor for the Telegraph, told those present that: “Along as you know yourself, you can be a little bit more relaxed than you think you need to be online.”  Hopefully a reassuring remark for politicians to hear from a journalist. The politician on the panel, Cllr Andrew Povey, from Surrey County Council, then attracted the most questions from the audience after sharing his experiences of using social media in Surrey (where FutureGov are working on the Future Surrey programme). He spoke of using social media to find out people’s views on local issues, such as the proposed changes to planning legislation.

You can watch the videos of all three speakers from the Conservative meeting on the FutureGov blog here.

The content generated from these meetings shows just how valuable they were – so thank you to all of you who came along and shared your experiences with us at one of these meetings. OPM are helping us capture the best of the learning from these meetings and are now creating a Local, Social, Digital Manifesto so that we can share your experiences to an even wider audience. Watch this space to find out more.

By: Lucy Watt, FutureGov

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Local Government, particularly with news on bringing the Localism agenda into reality. Here’s a quick round up of the news, comments and posts on the hot topics that have caught our eye over the last few days.

Open Public Services White Paper

David Cameron launched this long awaited White Paper, aiming to challenge top down government and instead focus on choice, diversity, decentralisation, accountability and fairness in public services.

Tom Gash, Programme Director from the Institute of Government points out “there’s not much that is new in this white paper but it is still a radical agenda. Other governments have tried and failed to remodel public services but this time the stakes are higher. With significant cuts in public spending, if these measures don’t work, the state will not necessarily be in a position to shore up services.”

Want to find out more? This article from the Guardian’s voluntary sector network lists the main points that we should be paying attention to. We also liked We Love Local Government’s take on it all.

Business rate rentention

Last week at the LGA conference Nick Clegg revealed new legislation that will allow local authorities to retain business rates.  This seems to mark a landmark step in moving political and economic weight to local government. To many who believe in the power of local politics (us included!) this could be an exciting time.

But, as Jonathan Carr-West from the LGiU points out “The key question, indeed arguably the only question, is how far you balance greater retention with a degree of redistribution. The measures announced today seek to achieve this through system of tariffs and top-ups. However, the detailed mechanism for this is yet to be announced. So while we can all agree on the desirability of a system that promotes local growth while protecting the revenue of poorer councils, it remains to be seen whether the government’s proposals can really achieve this.”

Cllr Simon Henig also adds some words of caution: “this could be make or break for many councils and the services they provide, widening the gap between north and south and creating two-tier regions – those that can grow and develop, and those that struggle simply to maintain the status quo for their communities.”

City Mayors

Lord Heseltine used his recent appearance before the Communities and Local Government Select Committee to press the case for for directly elected Mayors as being of key importance to localism, with thinktanks labelling the move as possibly “transformative” for the local government landscape.

The Institute of Government however argues the current proposals do not go far enough, and have not looked carefully enough at the relationship between local politicians and their mayors. In the briefing note, ‘Better Mayors‘ they suggest ”that if mayors are to be truly successful, they will need wider powers, and in some cases a wider geographic remit. The broader institutional features of mayoral authorities also need to be more carefully considered. We urge government to examine whether current plans do enough to address potential difficulties relating to: the large number of councillors who may end up working alongside mayors; the limited ability of mayors to draw on external expertise in running his or her administration; and the timing of local council and mayoral referenda and elections.”

Councils sharing networks…

We are seeing some examples of local government beginning to use technology and collaboration to bring about service transformation. It’s great to see plenty of case studies demonstrating strong leadership that recognises where it’s good to work together. Chief Information Officer Sander Kristel cites that truly shared services can only happen through sharing network infrastructure “To provide better services to the public it is necessary for us to work much more closely with others”. Encouraging news at a time when local government must be open to change and partnerships to make the most of it’s resources.

For a daily update on the big stories in #localgov, you should check out the TweetyHall site. As ever, if you’d like to get in touch just pop a comment in below, or send us a tweet over on @TweetyHall.

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Councillors are natural leaders in their local communities and they go where communities gather.  Festivals. Events at churches, synagogues and mosques. Social clubs. Pubs. You name it.

Councillors are increasingly found online, too. They may be blogging. They may be be using Facebook or Twitter. Or they might be engaging with the growing number of local social networks. Not for the sake of it, but because that’s where people are. Online. Talking about their lives, their concerns and where they live.

Some councillors are naturals at social media.  They may have backgrounds in in tech or the web or like many just enjoy communicating that way.  Others may be want a little bit of help or explanation to help them kick start their community leadership online.

That’s why the Local Government Group has recently published an updated version of Councillors Connected: a guide to using social media to support local leadership.  Originally published last year, the guide has been updated and refreshed with new case studies from Kirklees and Walsall.  Ingrid Koehler who recently joined FutureGov and wrote the guide for LG Group explains:

“This is a fast moving area. Over the past year, we’ve seen tools like Twitter and Facebook become even more important. Many councillors are now using social media as a mainstream communications tool with local people.  Councils are using social media much more, too – so councillors need to learn how to lead digital organisations effectively.  So the LG Group wanted to update and highlight the guidance as part of a wider new online offer to local government.”

The guide contains a summary of social media tools, ways to build engagement, ways to stay out of trouble online and how councils can use these tools to support more effective, efficient services.  It can be downloaded free of charge from the the LG Group website.

Twitter is a great place for open, honest conversation. It’s a wonderful opportunity for people to connect, including councillors and the people who elected them into office. But one thing’s for sure, it’s certainly no place to try and control the message in the same way as the traditional press release heavy conversation light world of communications.

An extreme case perhaps, but no-one is now more aware of the perils of trying to control the message in the the age of web-powered communications than Ryan Giggs after his super injunction episode, where the footballer took legal action to ban the UK press from breaking a story about his personal life (in fact banning them from mentioning they had been banned even). Unfortunately the facts were already out there, and the more his legal team tried to control the story, the quicker it gathered momentum, spreading like wildfire across tweets and status updates.

Not only are high profile celebrities on the receiving end of the Twitter chatter, but recently in local government there has even been a high profile case of one councillor making the headlines as super (anonymous) user of the service, hitting out at his own council.

After a series of anonymous tweets about South Tynside Council, and in an unprecedented move, the local authority successfully subpoenaed twitter to hand over local councillor Ahmad Khan’s account details, including the names, email addresses and contact details relating to several accounts, including @fatcouncillor and @ahmedkhan01. The council justified the move as down to ‘concerns surrounding damaging claims to council officers’.

It is believed to be the first time Twitter has bowed to legal pressure to identify anonymous users and comes amid a huge row over privacy and free speech online.

“It is like something out of 1984,” Khan told the Guardian. “If a council can take this kind of action against one of its own councillors simply because they don’t like what I say, what hope is there for freedom of speech or privacy?”

“I don’t fully understand it but it all relates to my Twitter account and it not only breaches my human rights, but it potentially breaches the human rights of anyone who has ever sent me a message on Twitter.

South Tyneside Council responded by saying “the council has a duty of care to protect its employees and as this blog contains damaging claims about council officers, legal action is being taken to identify those responsible.” Last week the council caused further controversy by taking action to find the writer behind the blog Mr Monkey, who has posted various stories about council leader Iain Malcome among others. The council justify their search for the writer behind the blog as “an analogy to harassment cases, and their duty to look after their staff.”

The taxpayers alliance have condemmed the council’s actions stating that “we are funding a case that undermines free expression and, whether or not Mr Monkey’s claims were genuine, will have a powerful chilling effect deterring future, important criticism of public bodies.”

With such anxiety and uncertainty surrounding these recent stories, we wondered what our tweeting councillors made of it all. Do you see twitter as a no holds barred kind of a place or do you think councillors should tread the same line online as you do offline, bound by the same rules?

We’d love to hear you’re thoughts on this so do leave a comment below.

Are you interested in writing a guest piece as an online councillor (anonymously or otherwise)? Let’s talk! Either drop us a line or send us a tweet (or direct message if you prefer;).

We’ve decided that it’s time for a bit of a makeover, and with support from our friends at the Local Government Group and Tweetminster, we’ve made it happen. Welcome to your new version of TweetyHall!

Back in May, local elections took place bringing in new councillors already willing and able to use responsive, innovative ways to communicate with both their constituents and colleagues. We were therefore keen to give TweetyHall a facelift to support this new wave of online savvy politicians.

So what’s new? When we first started, the focus was on giving you the electorate the ability to find and follow your local politicians and for those interested in local government to track the real time trends and conversations taking place every day.

Council and Councillor members are now pulled in directly from our twitter list (so if you’re not on there, and if you haven’t already, send us a quick tweet to let us know!) meaning you can easily search your local politician by name as before but also now follow trending local government topics filtered by both parties and councils.

Charlotte Eisenhart from our partners the Local Government Group outlines why the LGG is keen to back the work of TweetyHall:

“The LG Group is pleased to be involved with and support the new version of TweetyHall. The number of councillors on Twitter as well as other social media shows how important this form of communication is. By supporting this service to take things to the next level we hope to encourage and promote new and innovative ways for councillors to engage with their communities and the wider local government sector.”

Big thanks also go to TweetyHall media partner the Local Government Chronicle who will be reporting on all the news and views on TweetyHall over coming months, so keep an eye out for that. To kick things off, here’s their report on today’s relaunch for all you LGC subscribers.

What we *really* need is your help to make sure we have all tweeting councillors on our councillor list. Are you a councillor, or do you know a councillor that needs to be on there? Either send us a tweet or leave a comment below – but either way be sure to let us know!

Last month the local elections took place, bringing hundreds of new councillors into local politics (a big hello to you all!). Entering the world of local democracy can be a daunting prospect. So we thought what better time to share friend of TweetyHall Councillor Richard Kemp’s wise words after 28 years of service on taking on the role…

“In a democracy it’s the relationship that you have with your constituents that is the most important.

Don’t get Townhallitis! Too many councillors think that the important action takes place in the committees and the council chamber. Those are the ones that lose their seats the quickest. It’s being a community leader that is your most important job.

The Council Chamber is the most pointless place for anyone to spend time in. Particularly under the Cabinet system there is little power in the council chamber. Up to 120 people get together every 5 or 6 weeks to ritually abuse each other. Few real decisions are made there with the big strategic documents usually going through unopposed and with little challenge.”

With this change comes another as we recently launched the new, rebooted shiny new TweetyHall. We’re hoping that we can play a part in facilitating what Richard talks about, getting councillors out of the Town Halls to become recognised as authentic, approachable leaders in communities. Added to this, sites like TweetyHall and other social media sites are increasingly handy tools to keep councillors up to date with the noise around local government – something we’ve tried to improve here at TweetyHall by allowing representatives (as well as all those interested in local politics for that matter…) to sort through hot topics across both parties and policies.

If you or someone you know is a councillor and not on TweetyHall, all we need to do is add them to our councillor list to get them started on their social media journey, so do tweet us let us know and we’ll add them right away! As ever, if you have a story to tell (or would like to share how the web played a role in your election victory) do get in touch. We’d be happy to share.

Finally, good luck! Local government needs innovative, collaborative, responsive people – we’re looking forward to following you!

Today across the country yesterday’s election counts are taking place, shifting the local government landscape. Town halls and community centres are still busy confirming the verdicts, but we thought we’d pull together some of the results that are beginning to come through. The Lib Dems have already lost 300 of their seats, with notable changes including being replaced by Labour as the largest party in Sheffield and losing control in Bristol, Hull and Stockport. Most council changes seem to be in Labour’s favour, achieving control of Bolton, Lincoln, Hyndburn and North Warwickshire. It’s a different story in Scotland however, where Labour have lost 25 seats to the SNP and the SNP now heading for possible overall majority.

So, it looks as though we’ll be welcoming plenty of new councillors in local politics. We’re hoping they will be forward thinking, with fresh outlooks on not only campaigning, but communicating consistently with everyone they represent. It’s certainly been encouraging to see the amount of live reporting from candidates and citizens over the last few days. We particularly enjoyed Election Tales from Kirklees council, a blog which collects content from ‘local people reporting on the local elections’, from what is the polling officers job to what happens at the count.

My particular favourite is from one citizen chatting about what she makes of voting…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Kirklees are not alone in their efforts. As the counts continue, here are a few twitter accounts that have been working particularly hard to keep you in the know from the front line of the counts…. (do let us know if we’ve missed anyone, and we’ll add!)

Blog Preston

Bristol Council

Kirklees Council

Torbay Council

Sheffield University Journalists

You might also be interested in having a peep at how Andy Sawford’s Council predictions are playing out over on the LGiU blog, as well as LGC’s (free!) real time rolling results ticker. Do let us know what you are up to as the verdicts roll in – either leave a comment below or send us a tweet.

In case you hadn’t noticed, some votes will be taking place today that will not only decide who a third of our local politicians are but how candidates in the future will get to power, with the national referendum on the Alternative Vote taking place.

With the referendum taking place it’s important to remember those local election seats up for grabs – up to 2000 them! These elections could change up to 10% of local government representation, potentially bringing in a new generation of modern councillors, creative in the way they communicate with those they represent, using the web to allow you and I and everyone we know to get in contact with them and have those important conversations. I’m not one to speculate, but you can have a peep at the LGiU’s predictions here - and we’ll be collecting first hand reactions when the seats are decided, as well as that historic referendum result.

Taking of historic referendums, we thought what better day to head out and about (and onto buses at some points) to talk to those who have been campaigning for both electoral change and local election seats. First up I chatted to John Greenshields, who has been fighting for the No2Av campaign…

And in the Yes2Av corner we have Adam Bell who explained…

Either way, today is going to slide the political landscape, so be sure to check back tomorrow. As ever, we’d love to have your views on all this, especially if your part of the campaigns from either side or from any party fighting for a seat. We’ll be trawling through the hashtags so do share your photos, videos and opinions. Or, you can grab our attention directly by tweeting @TweetyHall.

Oh, and whatever way you decide to vote, make sure you do!

A week is a long time in social media. A year is an eternity. Yet I still pretty much stand by what I wrote in Connected Councillors: a guide to using social media to support local leadership, which was published just over a year ago.

So why do it over again? Well… things have changed and some bits of the guide are a little out of date. More councillors are getting online and engaging with their electorate, so there are now even more great examples of councillors using social media. More of the electorate are turning to social media first for information and influence – as sites like Facebook overtake Google. Twitter is now a standard part of the communications scene, even if it’s not as widely adopted by local people (in most places). Open data is becoming increasingly important, and we barely touched on that last time. And of course, we’d also like to tell councillors about the Knowledge Hub and how they can use that networking and learning resource.

Of course, we’d also like to add more uses of social media in election campaigns – since publication we’ve seen one set of general and local elections and we’re just about to have another one. So we’d love to hear about your great uses of social media in campaigns (election or not!).

Plus the other reason is that we’ve just plain old run out of hard copies, and we might as well take the chance to update the content before we re-print. Wot!? I hear you say. Hard copy publication on social media??!! Well, you know it makes sense. It’s as much for people who just want to dip their toe in as it is for the fully-fledged computer geek. And many councils are using the guide as an essential training resource for councillors to help them understand digital technology in public services and find hard copy much easier to use.

Timescales

Consultation on the new publication is OPEN NOW. How do you do it? Go here and start commenting. You can comment at paragraph level across the document. We’d love to see your comments, corrections, experiences and examples.

I’ll then revise and update the publication in early-to mid-May for a June publication.

So tell us now what you’d like to see in the new publication!