An online notebook
Awesomeness off of the internet for October 23rd to October 28th: Benefit fraudster caught out online – "A Melbourn benefit fraudster was caught out after council investigators checked her social networking site profile as part of their investigations." James Governor’s Monkchips » Personal Communities: fundamental changes in business – "Personal communities and word of mouth. … Keep reading
Last Friday saw LocalGovCamp moving to Lincoln for the first of the follow up days. Learning Pool were happy to help out with some sponsorship of the event, which was marvelously organised and convened by Andrew Beeken of Lincoln City Council. The day was an enjoyable one, with plenty of interesting sessions, including one facilitated … Keep reading
While Andrew was so marvelously blogging Government 2010 last Thursday, I was at an event organised by the National Police Improvement Agency, giving a presentation which was an overview of web 2.0 and what it means for public sector services like the Police. Here are my slides: Web 2.0 overview Also talking at the event … Keep reading
And open data! I’ve got to declare an interest here. I’m a cofounder of Timetric – so I, of course, think that open data is a really great thing and we need a lot more of it! The panel for this session is chaired by Ewan Mackintosh, a 4iP commissioner, joined by: Paul Canning from … Keep reading
This panel, chaired by Computer Weekly‘s Tony Collins, started with a call from the stage to stop twittering; sit there, and cover our eyes and mouth. That’s the experience of digital exclusion. According to Martha Lane Fox’s research, 10 million people (a sixth of the UK!) have never used a computer; 17 million people (nearly … Keep reading