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I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Five (grim) predictions for 2011 – Ingrid expresses a few concerns. Let's work to make sure this stuff doesn't happen! What Localism might mean for local gov web managers by Michele Ide-Smith…
So another 50 tickets were released for January’s Govcamp this morning, and they went within twenty minutes. Remarkable. There is still space, but very limited. If you want to come along, please leave your name on the waiting list. There’s…
There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to…
My partner in crime at Learning Pool, Breda Doherty, has written an awesome guide to using Facebook pages. She introduces it below – do have a read and then download the guide! Facebook is now used as an everyday means…
I haven’t done one of these for a while, sorry! Here’s the third in my series of 101 cool social media tools, it’s Doodle! Doodle is a neat little tool for organising when to meet groups of people. Someone starts…
Google announced a bunch of stuff last week, finally bringing to the mainstream some bits of tech that have been bubbling away for a few years now. One is the Chrome operating system, a lightweight OS for netbooks that pretty…
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Living with rats: Nine signposts towards Our Society – Good stuff from @juliandobson Wikileaks and the Long Haul – Shirky on Wikileaks What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us –…
I had a great day yesterday (Wednesday) at the FirePro seminar on social media use in Fire and Rescue Services. I have a load of notes to type up and share here, but one thing really jumped out at me…
Networked Neighbourhoods have published their study into local websites. Written by Hugh Flouch and Kevin Harris, it is as excellent as you would imagine it ought to be. For lazy people, here’s a link to the four-page summary (PDF warning).…
So, the contracts are signed and returned, and it’s all official. I’m writing a book. Sorry to all of my fans out there who were hoping this would be my first volume of poetry – you’ll all just have to…
The one thing that the internet does more than anything else, is that it brings the cost of distributing information to zero, no matter how far you are distributing it. We’re only now, I think, starting to be aware of…
It’s pretty obvious that local government, like all areas of public service, is facing a challenging time. Most of Learning Pool’s customers work within Organisational Development, or Learning and Development roles, and when budgets get cut, it’s often training that…
Apologies for the total lack of updates here. A recent burst of activity at Learning Pool has made thinking about what to blog about a bit trickier than usual. Luckily, the Public Sector Bloggers do a damn fine job taking…
A bit later than expected, but I’m delighted to launch the first tranche of tickets for the annual UK government unconference – UKGovCamp – to be held on 22nd January 2011. This is the fourth event, which was kicked off…
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Twitter is a great tool for local politicians to use to connect with their electorate. It’s also a brilliant channel for espousing your views on the stoning of women, as Gareth Compton, a councillor…
Learning Pool is running a ‘content jam‘ event in December in Birmingham, on Tuesday the 7th, at Fazeley Studios. It’s a new type of event for us, and one I had a bit of a role in putting together. What…
I am facilitating a session on (at?) the Local by Social online conference on Monday, 8th November at 13:30 on the topic of the GovCamp movement and unconferences in general. A couple of levels of sign up are required (it’s…
The Local by Social online conference (various levels of sign-up required) is turning out to be a bit of a triumph. Yesterday saw some fascinating discussions about various elements of technology (mostly web) enabled change. Well done Ingrid (and team)!…
Here, partly as a thank you to those listed for being so thoroughly excellent, but also as a way of pointing readers to great sources of content, are some of my favourite bloggers. Dan Slee Dan is a phenomenon. He…
George Bernard Shaw on collaboration. Yes, really: If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I…