Socitm09

Just a quick post as I am on my phone, but I am waiting at my gate at Stansted so I can get on a plane to Edinburgh, for the Socitm conference. I’m not speaking, which will mean I get…

UKGovCamp 2010 taking shape

After just one day, interest is already starting to build up for January’s barcamp. We have had a tonne of responses to the register of interest form, which is awesome, and have made significant headway in getting the venue arranged.…

UkGovCamp 2010 – #ukgc10

The previous two UK government barcamps have been wonderful events – bringing people together to start and continue conversations about how web developments affect the public sector in this country. If we are going to run the event in January…

Upcoming events

I’ve got a few speaking engagements coming up, as well as other events that look like fun… 1. Developing Public Sector Communications through Social Media, 15th September, London This is an LGC event, spending the whole day talking about how…

Free Local Gov E-Learning Event in Ripley

Learning Pool are running a free breakfast meeting for local authorities in the East and West Midlands. This meeting will give you the chance to see and hear what your neighboring local authorities are doing with E-Learning, hear how you…

Evaluating online engagement

I’ve mentioned before that we all really need to start evaluating the online engagement stuff we’re all doing. Alice Casey‘s presentation provides some great pointers for where to start and what to consider: My main argument was that a good…

LocalGovCamp – what a day!

Image credit: Arun. LocalGovCamp last Saturday was a marvellous day, lots of great conversations and everybody seemed to have a good time. David Wilcox caught up with me just before lunch for a chat about how things were going: There…

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…