An online notebook
An online notebook
Really interesting post from Paul Canning, discussing the recent assertion by Richard Steele, SOCITM‘s President, that web should be just another part of IT within organisations. Paul says: Web skills are very specific, you need to be across a lot…
One of the ideas in the Communities in Control white paper, published last week by the Department for Communities and Local Government, that has attracted a fair amount of attention is that of the ‘Digital Mentors’. Here’s what the paper…
Charles Leadbeater – he of We-Think fame – has a piece in this week’s Spectator called ‘The web is the most conservative force on Earth‘. Given the publication this article was appearing in, I wasn’t sure where it was going,…
Paul Canning brings to our attention the case of a sacked blogger at the Welsh Assembly. As reported at WalesOnline: AN Assembly Government civil servant who was sacked for running a political blog is taking his case to an Employment…
Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction …. “One of the personal learning threads that I’m following is working wikily – and relating this to…
Colin McKay asks: Are our British colleagues missing the forest for the trees? They have a PM and two Ministers tweeting, soliciting comment and petitions online, running blogs and pulling back the curtain – at least somewhat. That’s infinitely more…
There seems to be a head of steam being built up here, folks. The Department for Innovation, University and Skills – who ought to be good at this stuff, really – has launched a new minisite called Innovation Nation :…
Hazel Blears Blog « Cased Alice Casey of Involve on Hazel Blears’ 7 day blog (tags: alice_casey involve hazel+blears web24gov communitiesincontrol)
In what must be the most exciting day in the Department for Communities and Local Government ever, which has seen the start of a Twitter feed and the publication of a major white paper, the latest news is that Hazel…
Just had a chance to have a run through the executive summary of the white paper Communities in Control, published today by the department for Communities and Local Government, with a highlighter pen and picked out a few juicy bits.…