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"In keeping with its ambition to become the world's most open institution of its kind, the British Library has released over a million public domain illustrations and other images to the public through Flickr for anyone to reuse, remix or repurpose. So far, these images, which range from Restoration-era cartoons to colonial explorers' early photographs, have been used on rugs, album covers, gift tags, a mapping project, and an art installation at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, among other things."

This network provides events, networking and content for anyone using the web in public services.

"Image.net is the world's leading digital publicity distribution service. Offered exclusively to the media and available in 18 languages, image.net puts everything you need in one place."

"With Kippt you can save links, read articles, watch videos, share notes and much more. Your collections can be private or public, or shared with the people you work with."

Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You'll find quite a few smart social media monitoring tools, but what if you can't afford them? That's why many social media marketers and power users are in constant search of free, efficient alternatives. Here, we'll share a few ready-made spreadsheets you can copy (navigate File + Make a copy) and use for social media analytics. They are free, highly customizable and extremely easy to use. Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are "public," meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team).

Curating spaces for nurturing public sphere conversation and co-created initiatives. Enabling knowledge momentum through social channels.

Twitter guidelines for public sector

"Hi, I'm Sandy Carter and welcome to my web site. Here you can find links to my books, blog, biography and many ongoing projects in the world of Social Business and beyond. These are exciting times for Social Media and Social Business as well as in both my personal and professional life. This is also the place I will be posting news about speaking engagements and newest publications. Please read and enjoy. Sandy."

"The course will give you umpteen reasons why you should know about social networking, internet tools and mobile technology. One of the biggest is that doing things online is no longer optional. It's an essential life skill, and you and those you serve in the library will face difficulties and frustrations without familiarity in using the internet. The internet is no longer simply a static information silo but the hub for a myriad of activities and this change has been evolving for well over a decade. So many tasks are done online, from applying for benefits, finding the telephone number of the local garage, applying for a job, booking cinema tickets, to keeping track of your friends' birthdays, and much more. This creates a number of challenges for library staff. Therefore, 23 Things for Public Libraries aims equip staff to create, access and advise upon anything from Blogs and Instant Messaging; QR codes, Wikis and eBooks, to the mobile version of your library's website and legal aspects to watch out for."

Your guide to managing, improving and marketing UK public sector websites. For and overview, see the summary of requirements for standards compliance including timetables for implementation. The Digigov blog aims to share information and get feedback on digital policy across government. It seeks to stimulate debate around digital policy with other departments and agencies, government's digital suppliers, other bloggers, web developers, academics and the user community.

Some examples of how Twitter is being used by public authorities.

Creative Commons licences (also referred to as CC licences) can facilitate the copying, reuse, distribution, and in some cases, the modification of the original owner's creative work without needing to get permission each time from the rights holder.