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Bookmarks for April 6th through April 27th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. How to beat Apple – Interesting read. Micro-Participation In Online Consultations – NIce summary and contribution to the discussion. Coté’s People Over Process » 3 Tips on Scaling Agile Development…

LocalGovCamp tickets available!

LocalGovCamp is coming back to Birmingham on the 18th June! 200 of the most innovative and creative people in the local government sector will be coming together on a Saturday to talk about making things better – sometimes with technology,…

Communities and ‘hyperactivism’

Excellent analysis and writing from Tessy Britton in reaction to the recent disturbances in Bristol: This is the real landscape into which the Localism Bill will descend. There seems to have been some dramatic shift recently from ‘government knows best’…

Micro-participation at ShropCamp

Continuing my current obsession with micro-participation, I ran a session on the subject at yesterday’s excellent ShropCamp. Basically I chatted through what micro-participation is and what it tries to achieve, where it came from etc. Then I gave some examples…

Modern Councillor Webinar, 21 April 2011

With the elections on May 5 just around the corner for both English and Scottish councils, Dave and I’ll will be holding a free webinar to showcase Learning Pool’s relaunched Modern Councillor service. Modern Councillor is the online learning and support…

Digital engagement workshop, Peterborough, 25th May

Introduction to Digital Engagement Workshop Wednesday, 25th May, 2011 – The Bull Hotel, Peterborough We are delighted to announce this workshop introducing local authorities to the opportunity offered by the web and social media to enable effective engagement with citizens…

Some Kind of Digital posts

There’s been a few posts put up over on the Kind of Digital blog in the last couple of weeks and so I thought I’d do a quick pointer just in case you aren’t subscribed to that just yet. What…