The past, present and future of online communities
Well worth a watch, what Howard Rheingold doesn’t know about online communities isn’t worth knowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UisF0CxkMxI
Month: August 2014
Why is #virtualgovcamp a good idea?
Quick update – there’s now a placeholder site for #virtualgovcamp live at http://virtualgovcamp.org/ (it currently forwards to a wordpress.com blog) and a Twitter account @virtualgovcamp. At some point I will get all the content from the blog posts here replicated on the VGC site. So why do I think #virtualgovcamp is a good idea? Scale … Keep reading
VirtualGovCamp
I’d like to propose VirtualGovCamp. I’ve just been made aware that the lovely folks at LocalGovDigital are themselves working on a local version of a virtual unconference type event. That should be awesome, but I think my idea is sufficiently different to make it worthwhile running both. I will of course be doing everything I can … Keep reading
Developing your Yammer group
There are lots of guides out there on using Yammer, the internal social networking tool – how to set up a network, build your profile and so on. However, that’s not all there is to Yammer and a key skill is community building, particularly if you are running a group. Now, Yammer is a pretty … Keep reading
New free Think Digital webinar – 8th September, 11am
There was a lot of interest in my last webinar on Think Digital, where I talked through the ten principles fairly briefly, just to give folk an overview of what I am on about. I think it’s time to go into more detail about how you can make this happen, so over the next few … Keep reading