Social media and, in particular, Twitter is becoming a valuable media monitoring and interaction resource to London Communications Agency. As a result, we look at a number of Tweets that represent the issues in London each week. Some of these are political; some are of particular importance to London and Londoners; some to our clients; and others are simply light hearted entertainment. Any spectacular Tweets or information gathered are fed into those stories covered in LCA Monthly, our regular client briefing note. These Tweets were monitored by @swiftenburg of the LCA Savvy Team in the week from 25 June until 1 July. Follow LCA on Twitter here.
AboutLondonNews London by Duccio
£500m council tax goes unpaid in London http://t.co/uLOUu7d
Staggering amounts of money has not been collected by London?s local authorities, according to the @standardnews, 25 June
londoneating London Eating
Jamie Grainger-Smith (Fifteen, Acorn House) to run British pop-up restaurant at Lancaster House (SW1) in July – http://tgr.ph/kfQFh6
Pop-ups in London are becoming more common since the recession, and the latest will be in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 27 June
RossLydall Ross Lydall
#TfL annual accounts show 379 execs earned £100k+ – up 50% on previous year. Includes Tube Lines, Crossrail + those with golden goodbyes
Transport for London came under fire for the number of executives being paid over £100k. TfL did get some good news before as the expected RMT Tube strikes were called off, 27 June
wallpapermagWallpaper* magazine
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor: This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is not the visually b… http://bit.ly/mPblkm
There?s probably nowhere better in London than the Serpentine during summer (@LDNcomms were out in force at a leaving party last week) and the Pavilion can only add to it, 27 June
Emily39 Emily Wright
Interesting to see Telegraph and ES’s take on our Ken Shuttleworth interview ?http://t.co/9gogl5F …
Building Magazine interviewed Ken Shuttleworth and his comments were picked up by Sarah Sands from @standardnews whilst @TelegraphNews wrote this on the subject, 28 June
ConHome ConservativeHome
Clegg to announce at LGA that Business Rates will be localised http://bit.ly/jBn0Du
Expected news from the Local Government Association conference in Birmingham confirmed the desire to look at localised business rates ? @londoncouncils have a model for London here, 29 June
GettyImagesEdit Getty Images News
Latest images from London as thousands of public sector workers march as part of national strike over pension cuts – http://bit.ly/l45I0e
The public sector strike didn?t bring the capital to as much of a standstill as was possibly expected, 30 June
brainpicker Maria Popova
Mark Noad’s redesign of the London Tube Map http://j.mp/lhjjDN And 6 creative remixes of the classic http://j.mp/d6oviq
Mark Noad?s redesign caused more London Twitter activity last week than almost anything else ? the best of them came from New York, 30 June
TheIndyMedia Independent Media
Chris Blackhurst appointed Editor of The Independent http://ind.pn/lzG3EI
So where better to read the biggest media story of the week than the newspaper the @standardnews City Editor will soon be in charge of? 1 July
BreakingNews Breaking News
Rafael Nadal beats Andy Murray in Wimbledon semis; Nadal will play Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s final – @BBCSport http://bbc.in/j1HdKR
Murray did it again ? at least the summer was nice, 1 July
camdengp Camden Green Party
Fitzrovia locals do a lot of work to oppose a development application. Camden council agrees. Boris ignores them: http://cot.ag/mTcs4K
The Camden Greens weren?t exactly pleased with the @MayorOfLondon ?s expected decision to go against Camden wishes regarding the Saatchi and Saatchi building, 1 July
