An online notebook
An online notebook
Thanks to Graham for putting together this Wordle produced from the text of all the tweets at Saturday’s govcamp. I like that ‘people’ is the second biggest word, and that ‘good’ is nicely central. He has also made this spreadsheet…
Flickr photo credit: Paul Clarke Blimey. The third annual unconference, or GovCamp, for government types went pretty well. Two main factors, marvellous and generous hosting by Google, and a terrific level of participation from pretty much everyone who attended. What’s…
Blogging has been very light here just recently – GovCamp is basically taking over my life. Will be back on track next week, hopefully. Here’s the text of an email I sent round to members of the network last night…
The UK govcamp event is happening on the 23rd January. Everyone should have had an email who has a ticket to come – if you think you ought to have had something, but haven’t, please let me know! It’s an…
The c’llr.10 event is the first ever major national conference specifically for councillors. Organised by the Local Government Information Unit, producers of Cllr Magazine, in conjunction with Ingenium Strategic Events, Cllr 10 will be held at The Emirates Stadium, London…
Michael Krigsman’s blog, IT Project Failures, is well worth subscribing to. He recently shared a really interesting slidedeck on how projects can go wrong, and how it can be avoided: Why Projects Fail: Obstacles and Solutions View more documents from…
I keep returning to this post by Headshift’s Lee Bryant, on leadership in the networked society. It’s big, meaty and good. My starting point was the myth that leadership is somehow less important in new, networked organisations. Not so. If…
Last week I spoke at the Online Information conference. It was a session about Twitter, where Karen Blakeman did a great job explaining the whole thing, and how organisations can make use of it. Then I stepped up and told…
Learning Pool‘s breakfast meetings are great opportunities for local authorities to get together over a croissant and a cup of tea and hear some great stories about how real change can be achieved in councils with the right blend of…
Last Friday saw LocalGovCamp moving to Lincoln for the first of the follow up days. Learning Pool were happy to help out with some sponsorship of the event, which was marvelously organised and convened by Andrew Beeken of Lincoln City…