Category Communities

Developing a community game

I have run the social media game many times now, and it always turns out differently and is always rewarding, and interesting. Basically, it is learning and FUN! Here is a PDF of the cards I used, which I put…

Be Vocal

Be Vocal is A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful. It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from…

FutureGovNetwork

Dom at FutureGov has launched the FutureGovNetwork: We have developed this site as a really straight forward, open and easy to use place to start to capture those things that we all do to improve public services – share stuff…

LocalGovCamp group

Much planning is afoot for LocalGovCamp, the unconference for local government which is taking place on 20th June in Birmingham. All tickets are technically sold out, but if you are desperate to come, email me. I took a wander around…

Using game mechanics in engagement

Here is a really interesting presentation on how elements of games can help engage people within a community – and therefore also, possibly, a process. Putting the Fun in Functional View more OpenOffice presentations from amyjokim. Thanks to Rich Millington…

Hyperlocal alliance

Will, Dom and Kalv are starting something that has the potential to become really rather cool. So where are we going with this? Well we want to know if hyperlocal people in the UK are up for some sort of…

Helen Milner on open processes

I was delighted when UK online centres decided to make their bid for the Digital Mentor fund from CLG, inspired by the community initiative to take a policy initiative by the scruff of the neck over at DigitalMentor.org. Now the…