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An online notebook
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…
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to the national conference of the Society for Local Council Clerks up in Durham. It was a great conference with a group of people who really care about what they do and…
From Gartner’s Mark McDonald: Too many people think of a wiki as another knowledge management tool. Knowledge management tools are something that is separate from your day to day workflow. That attitude will need to change along with the technology…
Well, in a decade perhaps. If you’ve ever wondered if it were possible to write fondly about Windows, well, James Gardner (kind of) gives it a go in his recent post on the desktop upgrade about to take place at…
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Solace 2010 write up; Localism, hash tags and a reflection on priorities – Great write up from Catherine Howe. Thriving too: Big Society: Yours Mine and Ours – "So how…
Quickly grabbing some connectivity at a friend’s house, so I thought I would share this post – originally published on the Learning Pool blog – outlining just how much money the public sector has saved by working with us to…
I’ve moved house, and the new one won’t be connected to the internets until Thursday. So I won’t be doing much until then! Normal service resumed next week though.
I’m taking part in an online conference on the LGID Communities of Practice platform (registration required) that’s running between 3 and 9 November. My bit will be on the 8th, between 1.30 and 3.30pm, and I will be talking about…
I’ve long considered LinkedIn to be one of the most boring websites in the world, and as I described here, I rarely use it when not prompted to by an email alert demanding my attention. However, the first rule in…
A really interesting experiment is happening in Manchester today, thanks to the local police force. Greater Manchester Police are, according to their website, publishing details of every incident that it deals with on Twitter to allow the public to see…
I had the pleasure on this lunchtime of spending time with Nick Booth – the man (the legend?) behind Podnosh, and the phenomenon that are Social Media Surgeries. What I love about Nick is that he is a connector –…
Second in my series of posts highlighting 101 cool online tools is Addictomatic. It’s a great little service for doing instant online monitoring. Just feed the homepage with a search term, and it will quickly come back to you with…
Another example of a nice informal council website asking for ideas – this time in Barnet and focusing on financial issues. How can the council save money? Meanwhile, Walsall Council is using Delib’s Budget Simulator tool to get residents engaged…