CommsCamp14 session ideas

I’m looking forward to CommsCamp14 in a week’s time, and have pitched a couple of session ideas on the event’s Ideascale site: User centred comms What does user centred comms look like? Who actually is the customer? How do we find out what they want to know and how they want to know it? Online … Keep reading

Why be a councillor?

Pretty damning stuff from Cllr Roger Gambba-Jones: If somebody was to ask me about becoming a councillor nowadays, I’m not sure what I would tell them were the benefits of doing so and I don’t mean to the councillor. Government funding cuts and more and more centralisation of power, hidden behind the facade of Localism, … Keep reading

Podcast episode 5 – Anne McCrossan

Here’s my fifth podcast. This is becoming a thing! I’m joined in this episode by Anne McCrossan, who runs Visceral Business. Anne’s thing is getting organisations perform as genuinely social businesses. http://traffic.libsyn.com/davebriggs/ep5-annemccrossan.mp3 Here’s a link to download the original mp3 file if you would like to do that. If you would like to subscribe to … Keep reading

LocalGovCamp 2014 thoughts #5 – tools

I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. There’s a kitbag of tools and approaches that can be used to tackle the problems facing us. Not everyone knows about them and this needs fixing. I’m not necessarily talking about digital … Keep reading