Help my village!
Thanks to everone who helped out with this vote, hopefully we will have the results soon and that it will be positive news! My village’s community centre has the chance tonight to win a £50,000 grant from the People’s Millions.…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Bookmarks for November 20th through November 24th
Awesomeness off of the internet for November 20th to November 24th: Open Government and Government 2.0 Online Conference – Fall 2009 – O’Reilly Media – "When citizens interact with their government, powerful things can happen. It means doing more with…
Putting together your toolkit
I love technology. Actually, no I don’t. I like the idea of technology, and the potential of it. Actual technology generally makes me swear. Anyway, where was I? So you’ve decided that you need to do something exciting, using technology.…
Editing Wikipedia
I’ve been asked this question a few times recently, so thought it worth sharing my answer with everyone that reads this blog: What’s the best way to approach editing Wikipedia articles about us? There are a number of reasons why…
Strategy stuff – a three pronged approach
Drawing together a few discussions I have been involved in recently about the different types of documents an organisation – such as a council – might need to put together to define its approach to engaging online, I thought it…
Four rules for councils’ democratic engagement
I like these slides, from Anthony: Four rules for councils' democratisation work View more documents from The Democratic Society.
OpenSpaceDevon
Carl Haggerty has launched a great initiative down in Devon: Carl writes: It would be great to get public sector professionals, voluntary organisations and business people involved in these areas all together and working through some of these issues and…
Bookmarks for November 16th through November 18th
Awesomeness off of the internet for November 16th to November 18th: Welcome to Southwark Circle – "Southwark Circle is a membership organisation that provides on-demand help with life's practical tasks through local, reliable Neighbourhood Helpers, and a social network for…
Bookmarks for November 9th through November 16th
Awesomeness off of the internet for November 9th to November 16th: Digital engagement governance – a dichotomy between hyperlocal or partnership managed by Michele Ide-Smith – "My perception is that developing and maintaining a successful hyperlocal online resource will require commitment, coordination…
Works starts on skills framework for web professionals
Vicky, from Boilerhouse and Socitm, pops by to tell us about the latest developments with the public sector web professionals network. On 27 November, Socitm will be holding a workshop as the first stage in a project to define a…