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An online notebook
Next Saturday (14th July) sees LocalGovCamp coming back to Birmingham!
It's a great opportunity for innovators across local government to get together, share problems and come up with solutions. It's also an honour (and occasional inducer of panic) to be able to put the event together.
That nice Mr Briggs has been encouraging me to post some stuff about hardware.
As it happens I’ve been trying out a new piece of ultra-modern hi-tech digital equipment.
No it’s not a MacBook Air, ChromeBook or even one of them new Google tablets.
It is... drum roll... The PowerMonkey Extreme.
Which is basically a back-up battery.
Or at least, about where people in public service can go to share ideas, ask questions and promote good practice.
Back in the summer of 2006, when I was working as a lowly Risk Management Officer (yes, you read that right) at a county council, I joined the nascent Communities of Practice platform, which was being developed by Steve Dale at the then Improvement and Development Agency.
I thought it was fantastic, and joined in with some gusto – so much so in fact that I did attract a little criticism from colleagues who thought – probably quite rightly – that I ought to have been concentrating on the day job.
I admit it: I wasn’t always that interested in the internet and social media.
In all honesty I was a tad old-school – I’d started out as a newspaper journalist before the internet really took off, and before social media became mainstream.
Following up on my earlier post on tweeting meetings, here are a bunch of quick, easy - and probably free - ideas for getting started with digital engagement.
I'm giving a talk today at a conference in Norwich for parish and town councils and one of the things I want to do is just to share some really simple ideas on how councils could get some online interactivity going.
One of those ideas was to tweet meetings. I asked my network on Twitter for examples, and was deluged!
Last week I chaired a panel at the Citizen 2012 conference in London. We awere talking about how the internet shapes how people access government services, and what government ought to do about it.
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Digital engagement – all about people | Stephen Hale – "We know that the potential power of the social web is dependant on people talking to each other, offering opinions, and…
We Love Local Government, an anonymously written group blog by a bunch of people working in the sector, has closed its doors. How sad! It was a great resource, providing support, advice and amusement for all those working for councils…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Integrate Your Apps | Zapier – Sync the Web – An ifttt for business web applications. Potentially vey handy. What Organizations Can Learn from "If This Then That" (IFTTT) – Nice…