Open Source Schools
Open Source Schools is a site that launched sometime last summer, I think, but has now had quite a bit of a makeover. It’s chock full of great advice and resources on how schools can make use of open source…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Category Communities
IDeA Performance
This Friday (9th January 2009) the Improvement and Development Agency and LARCI are holding an event entitled Performance management plus: the next stage of performance management for operational improvement. Sounds like heavy stuff, but with a great mixture of speakers…
Community facilitators
From Rich Millington: A moderator keeps things normal. A moderator removes the extremes from the community. Moderating isn’t as hard as moderators would have you believe. You can typically find community members to do it. A facilitator makes it easier…
Comments in the crowd
Photo credit: Greenboy Great post by Steph on comments, community and moderation: …as more people start to see the web as place for self-expression in their own spaces and other people’s, hearing the interesting voices in the crowd is only…
We are all networked learners
More great stuff from David Wilcox musing on the experience of social reporting in Portugal. Whilst there, he was lucky enough to come across Etienne Wenger, a highly regarded thinker in the field of knowledge management and learning, who I…
Lots of new Voicebox content!
It’s good to see plenty of new content being added to the Voicebox blog – the home of the UK online centres and Citizens Online bid for the CLG digital mentor fund. For example, Mike Amos-Simpson on ‘What is Open…
It could be Rotterdam, or anywhere
Actually, no it couldn’t, because Rotterdam is a beautiful city, and I am having tremendous fun here with Nick Booth. We are at an R4R event for residents groups throughout Europe, with two aims: to demonstrate the power of the…
UK Online Centres want to collaborate!
I have just come back from a meetup in Birmingham of folk interested in the Digital Mentor concept and how we can all collaborate on a bid. I got to meet some great people for the first time, and catch…
Online social media surgery
I love the social media surgery concept, which was pioneered by Pete Ashton in Birmingham, used by me at UK Youth Online and then turned into something amazing by Pete, Nick and others in Birmingham. I think there is a…
Engagement in Kettering
My local authority, Kettering Borough Council, is doing some great work in the democratic engagement field, firstly by taking part in an excellent nationwide democracy project, and also by promoting local online communities. First up, Kettering is taking part in…