My content curation workflow
Curating content online is a fairly hot topic these days – information overload being what it is, folk tend to like it when someone spends a bit of time picking the wheat from the chaff for them. It doesn’t have to…
An online notebook
An online notebook
Curating content online is a fairly hot topic these days – information overload being what it is, folk tend to like it when someone spends a bit of time picking the wheat from the chaff for them. It doesn’t have to…
I recorded this a little while ago to go alongside some other training and consulting work I was doing at the time. I basically explain how to plan out digital engagement work to ensure it is most likely to succeed,…
When I delivered the Civil Service Learning digital engagement for policymakers course with Steph Gray, Steph put in a really neat slide which explained that different people have different needs from any one engagement exercise. Some people are happy to…
Our first successful digital engagement course is up and running and going great guns. In fact, I’ve already had a few people asking when the next one is going to be. So, am happy to provide an answer! We’ll be running…
I had an interesting chat last week with someone from a fairly large NGO who wanted to start using online tools to engage people with their work. As usual, there were no easy answers. However, there is an answer, only…
Do you need a digital engagement strategy to get it right? Perhaps you don’t, but it can’t not help, surely. Start with a vision. What do we want to achieve? Where do we want to end up? Pick an arbitrary…
A lot of people are unwilling to innovate online because they’re worried it’ll go badly. After all, there’s a story every week in the media about someone ballsing up online in one way or another. It strikes me, from only…
But certainly not any predictions! In the space in which Kind of Digital operates – which means largely working with public sector people in helping them innovate in the way they engage with citizens and communities using technology – I…
I do a fair bit of training on digital engagement to public sector bodies up and down the country and most of the time it means very different things to very different people.
To some, it means running a corporate Twitter account or Facebook page - which, of course, it does.
To others it means teams delivering services making use of digital tools to engage with service users, to improve the quality of the service being provided - which, of course, it does.
To another group, it means bringing social technology into the organisation, to improve the way people work, learn and generally get stuff done - which, of course, it does.
Then there are those to whom it means an approach to consultation on a particular decision, policy, campaign or project - which, of course, it does.
So all of these things, and a fair few others as well, are a part of what digital engagement means. Often the trouble is that they aren't always considered by those looking to implement digital engagement.
Our site for NALC, What Next for Localism, is going pretty well. Quite a few ideas submitted and some conversation starting up around them and the articles published on the blog. To further development the online discussion, we’ll be hosting…