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How digital engagement can save councils money
…is the title of a startlingly well written and interesting paper from Anthony Zacharzewski of the Democratic Society. Download it here (PDF warning).
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Hack Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Council‘s approach to open government and IT strategy is impressive. Check out their IT strategy blog, where they detail their use of the cloud, for example, and their open data site. Great stuff, and good to see it…
#lgworkforce – Sharing management successfully
Chris Elliott, Head of Transformation at Staffordshire Moorlands District Council and High Peak Borough Council shows how to make the most of a joint chief executive, how to bring services together to save costs and how to best spread best…
#lgworkforce – Buckinghamshire’s Organisation Redesign Programme
Gillian Hibberd, Corporate Director for People, Policy and Communications, talks through how their change process was planned and supported, and how staff were engaged. OD is aligning structure to objectives – form following function. Many orgs struggle to easily define…
#lgworkforce – Implementing a major organisational transformation
Melanie Wood and Catherine Griffiths from Birmingham City Council talk about how to take £450m out of the budget, addressing the workforce implications and creating new ways of working. Birmingham is the largest local authority in Europe – £3.4b revenue…
#lgworkforce – Successfully redesigning your organisation
Duncan Brown, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies, provides some lessons from research, what works in practice and pitfalls to avoid. How many major reorganisations have we all been through? Lots and lots, it would seem. Not many seem…
#lgworkforce – Welcome & Introduction
Andrew Hancox, Director of Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands introduces the day. The money really does seem to be running out in local government Leaked CLG memo – 40% reductions. Leaders and managers need to consider how their organisations operate.…
Designing a fit for the future organisation
I’m at the IDeA-organised ‘Designing a fit for the future organisation‘ event today, in Birmingham. It’s all about organisational redesign and development, and how councils can help meet the challenges they face by changing the way they work. There are…
The home of GovCamp
Over the past few years, a number of events have happened which could loosely be described as ‘GovCamps’ – taking the barcamp idea of open space style ‘unconferences’ and governmentising it a bit. Starting with Jeremy’s efforts in 2008, we…
Face your online fears
Silver Surfers’ Day is coming up on the 21st May. Organised by Digital Unite and supported by UK online centres, among others, it’s a national campaign to highlight the opportunities the internet offers people in later life. As a part…
Why I’m NOT quitting Facebook
There’s been a lot of talk recently about Facebook and their privacy issues, as well as their perceived attempts to ‘take over the web’ through their ‘like’ buttons and other integrations with their platform. As a result, quite a few…
What Learning Pool is all about
In case you didn’t know…
Bookmarks for April 30th through May 14th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Should the Public Sector pay for Content Management Systems? « Carl’s Notepad – [with open source] "You will still need to consider the integration aspects but open source products are…
Open Data & The Rewards of Failure
Great set of slides explaining the issues around the publishing of public data online, by Chris Taggart. Open Data & The Rewards of Failure View more presentations from countculture.
Instruments of torture
Nicely put by Gerry McGovern: Over the years I have been struck by how awfully designed internal systems are. Most internal tools I come across are more like instruments of torture than the drivers of efficiency they are supposed to…
Election day
Go and vote. Oh, and I love Google’s logo today:
Using social media in learning
A question was asked in the social media community of practice (various levels of authentication required) about using web 2.0 technology to support learning. I couldn’t help myself… Blogging Using blogs to record and share learning is a really nice…
Using a PC
I’ve had a pretty settled tech line-up for a while, which works really well for me. Essentially – 24” iMac on the desktop, MacBook Air for the portable and an iPhone for the really portable. The iMac is fine for…
Internet megalomania
John Naughton is spot on about the recent Facebook announcements in his Observer column: What’s comical about this stuff is not so much its implicit arrogance – the assumption that we all want to share using Facebook – as its…
The internet operating system
Two long, thoughtful and interesting posts from Tim O’Reilly: The State of the Internet Operating System Handicapping the Platform Wars