An online notebook
There is a lot of discussion about social media policies, especially in government. People want documents to set out how staff can and should use social networks and other websites to engage with citizens and groups, and what the protocol should be when staff comment on blogs or forums in an ‘official’ capacity. The obvious … Keep reading
Be Vocal is A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful. It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from the Timely Information for Citizens programme set up by the Department for Communities and Local … Keep reading
I’ve being doing some work over the past few months with Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications in the UK. Much of the work has been around how they could use social web technology to work better internally, but I’ve also been advising on external online engagement stuff too. One strand of that work has now … Keep reading
I’m looking forward to tomorrow, as a gang of folk from DIUS‘s engagement team (led ably by Steph) and I will be spending the day reporting from the All Together Now event in London. Hosted by Channel 4, DIUS and BECTA, the event’s convener, Steve Moore says: the focus of this event is not specifically … Keep reading
Neville writes about the latest service from Best Before – the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo – which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your Audioboo account on the web, complete with your geo-location data if you choose to include … Keep reading