Month June 2009

Evaluating online engagement

I’ve mentioned before that we all really need to start evaluating the online engagement stuff we’re all doing. Alice Casey‘s presentation provides some great pointers for where to start and what to consider: My main argument was that a good…

Be Vocal

Be Vocal is A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful. It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from…

LocalGovCamp – what a day!

Image credit: Arun. LocalGovCamp last Saturday was a marvellous day, lots of great conversations and everybody seemed to have a good time. David Wilcox caught up with me just before lunch for a chat about how things were going: There…

LocalGovCamp very close indeed!

I can’t think of much other than LocalGovCamp now. Am literally widdly with excitement at what will be a fabulous day. Despite the disappointment of a few folk having to drop out at this late stage, the demand for places…

FutureGovNetwork

Dom at FutureGov has launched the FutureGovNetwork: We have developed this site as a really straight forward, open and easy to use place to start to capture those things that we all do to improve public services – share stuff…

Videopress

Video hosting is always a bit of a bother, as no one service does it all, as far as I am aware. I did a fair bit of social reporting last week, and am already running into difficulties in finding…

Catching up

Has it really been two weeks since I last posted here? Well, I’ve been busy, doing stuff. I promise. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the stuff I would normally have been writing about here during the whirlwind of…

Bookmarks for May 17th through June 1st

Stuff I have bookmarked for May 17th through June 1st: They Want To Work For You Wiki – "Anyone can edit this directory of candidates standing for the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." mySociety » Blog Archive »…