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I had an enjoyable couple of hours yesterday evening at the LSE, attending Clay Shirky‘s lecture on cognitive surplus, which was launching his book of the same name. It was an enjoyable hour, and a real pleasure to hear stories…
Quite a few events coming up in the next couple of weeks that I should probably let you know about. Next week I’m attending a few things: on Monday, the Clay Shirky lecture on Cognitive Surplus at the LSE, followed…
Quora is an interesting looking service, providing a fairly straightforward question and answer platform. It’s been in closed beta for a while, but now has been unleashed onto the public at large. It’s all about capturing the activity we all…
John Naughton is consistently one of the – if not the – best writers we have about technology. His A Brief History Of The Future is a simply fantastic introduction to the internet: why and how it came about, from…
This is a great video from John Seely Brown, who is a really interesting guy. His website blurb states that I’m a visiting scholar at USC and the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. In a previous life,…
I wrote up quite a bit of what was said at the Local by Social event yesterday, but didn’t add much in the way of comment or analysis. This post makes up for that. I’ll try and sum up what…
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. What Does Government Transformation Mean, Exactly? – "Rather than fantasizing about the myth of transformation, governments have to accept that future is no longer predictable and focus on what changes…
Here’s Hugh Flouch! Hyperlocal communities Harringay Online – 2,900 members, 4-500 visits a day, 2-300 visitors a day Has discussion forum, event promotion, information about public services, photo gallery and local history archive ‘a bible of local information and gossip’…
Paul Miller now up, from the School of Everything. SoE is all about getting more people to learn – the things they want to learn about Since Sept 2008 Private enterprise backed by investment SoE can help reduce costs, do…
Patient Opinion is a great site for people to leave feedback about their experiences with health services. Really micro level issues can be discussed and action taken Based on the telling of stories by service users Great example of dodgy…
Katie from Do the Green Thing is next. Trying to tackle climate change creatively People are inclined to help with the environment, but how do you make them become a bit more active? Obligation probably not the best route Make…
Next up is Hugo Manassei from Participle. Participle take on a new issue a year, so far: ageing, families and youth People are skipping the “third age” – period when you have retired but are physically healthy and active. This…
John Hayes from IDeA takes to the platform. IDeA is 11 years old, just like Google 353 authorities, providing 700 services each (in a Unitary authority), 2.1 million people working in local government All these people, services and authorities have…
Now it is Andy Gibson’s turn. He wrote the Local by Social book! Andy is hoping to provide some perspective on all the digital stuff As railroads transformed the way we work and our society, so will the new online…
Dominic Campbell is first up. Yay! Dom is going to talk about some of the research he has been doing with Harvard University “This isn’t about technology” – too right! New kind of change facing local gov – one that…
I’m at the Local by Social event today, being run by FutureGov and the IDeA. It should be a lot of fun, and I’ll let you share in that fun by live blogging as much of the event as I…
There are a lot of people who still see the internet as being something that is purely the domain of right-wing lunatics and porn fiends, which is of course a shame. The internet has created, or at least helped to…
LocalGovCamp Yorkshire and Humber was a great day, superbly organised by Ken Eastwood, Kevin Campbell-Wright, Melanie Reid and a host of helpers. It was by a mile the least involved I have ever been in one of these events and,…
With the excitement building up to LocalGovCamp Yorkshire and the Humber on Saturday, I thought I might share this piece, which I wrote for the UKGovCamp hub site a little while ago. It’s a ten point plan to organising your…
This week saw the launch of a new local government digital engagement project – Let’s Talk Central by Central Bedfordshire Council. The Learning Pool online innovation / social media / loafing around team – that’s me and Breda – were…