Give us a break
Am sharing the details of this event on behalf of my good friend Jude, who is running what looks to be a really interesting project. GIVE US A BREAK: Ideas for developing easy ways to source respite breaks for carers…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Month May 2011
The digital engagement game
At the introduction to digital engagement workshop we ran this week, I debuted the digital engagement game. It’s a workshop exercise that’s an expansion of my version of David Wilcox‘s social media game, which in turn has been developed into…
Online consultation and policy engagement
Neil Williams writes a great post about digital engagement on the AlphaGov blog: On the face of it, you could say it’s a simple case of government doing something a bit whizzier and more user-friendly than publishing thousands of PDFs…
Portfolio: sharing council comms resources
Portfolio looks an interesting idea, coming out of Nottingham City Council. This, from an article at LGComms: We’re launching Portfolio, a web portal that allows public sector organisations to share marketing materials. Councils and other public authorities can sign up…
Innovative ways of training
I’ve been thinking about using some new ways of providing training on digital engagement stuff to those working in public services – in tandem with the traditional approach that we are taking in our workshop tomorrow. Webinars are something I’m…
Power lines
The RSA have just published a rather interesting paper that is well worth a flick through. The paper argues that the government’s efforts to build the Big Society are too focused on citizen-led service delivery. An approach based on utilising…
Engage people on their terms, not yours
I’m always going on about how, if you want people to give up their time to help you out, then you need to make it easy for them to do so, else they won’t bother. Stefan has a lovely example,…
Thank you, LocalGovCamp sponsors!
Since my last desperate begging funding drive, several companies and organisations have leapt to support LocalGovCamp, namely: Public-i Firmstep Talk About Local Global Crossing Arcus Global Many thanks to them. They join those who had already stuck their hands in…
‘Official’ local gov blogging
Simon writes a nice post celebrating the existence of the new official BIS blog, and provides a handy list of existing Whitehall “formal, properly-designated corporate ‘blogs’”. Here they are – I’ve also added UKTI’s blog to the list, which I’m…
Bookmarks for April 28th through May 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Local Government Graduate Gripes – "How would a networked, open, innovative, tech-enabled, social recruitment scheme for government work?" 10 things Alpha.gov.uk gets wrong (Part 1) | Helpful Technology – Nicely…