ScotGovCamp tickets available

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The wonderful Lesley Thomson has once again put together ScotGovCamp for another year.

It takes place in Aberdeen on Saturday, September 24.

All the details and booking is here. Don’t forget the event blog and networking group.

Not sure if I will make it as I’m heading north of the border for the Epic Social Media conference a few days later. I’m not sure my constitution can cope with two Scottish adventures in a week!

Evaluating digital engagement

A record number of people took part in our live web chat on evaluating online engagement.

Whilst in the course of the hour we didn’t exactly solve the issues, the discussion threw up some great examples and ideas and everyone who took part will have taken something useful away with them.

You can relive the chat using the CoverItLive widget on the Kind of Digital website, or download a rather basically formatted PDF transcript.

Hope it’s useful!

News of the next live web chat shortly…

Public Sector Web Network events

Just a quick pimp of some of the great events we’ve got lined up in September through the Public Sector Web Network:

  • Tuesday 6th: Digital Engagement Workshop – Wales. Find out more.
  • Monday 12th: Digital Engagement Workshop – Birmingham. Find out more.
  • Thursday 22nd: Social Media for Emergency Planning & Resilience – Leeds. Find out more.
  • Wednesday 28th: Epic Social Media Conference – Glasgow. Find out more.

As for the rest of the year… we’re hoping to run an intranet focused workshop in October, along with events around making and publishing video, and some WordPress training events too.

We’re also putting together a big jamboree for all those working in web publishing, bringing together a load of the latest thinking and innovations taking place in public sector web teams.

If you’re interested in finding out more, just drop a comment below or email me,

Storycamp

After being suitably inspired at June’s LocalGovCamp, the effervescent Nicky Getgood has been working away to get StoryCamp up and running.

She describes it thus:

StoryCamp is a time and picturesque space for storytellers (digital or otherwise), independent publishers, those in local government, hyperlocal-land and beyond to meet, share stories and ways and means of telling them.

If you can see the importance of telling a powerful story to communicate and would like to think, discuss and learn more about how to do this effectively, or share examples of storytelling that has had a real impact, then StoryCamp is for you!

It’s taking place on October 1st, in Ludlow in Shropshire.

There’s a blog, and an organising group, and you can sign up for the event here. I think it’s going to be great.

Webchatting: barriers and evaluation

Yesterday’s live Kind of Digital web chat about overcoming barriers to implementing social media went really well.

You can relive the whole thing over on the KoD website, or download a rather basic PDF of the transcript.

Our next chat has been scheduled in for Tuesday, August 16th at 11am BST. It’s going to be on the thorny subject of evaluation of digital engagement activity – great!

You can sign up for a reminder over here – hope you see you there!