An online notebook
An online notebook
To carry on the culture theme, I’ve recently been reading 37 Signals‘ book Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application. For those that don’t know, 37 Signals are the guys behind simple but useful…
I had an enjoyable time on Thursday of this week, with the rest of the Learning Pool crew, customers and friends, at the Learning Pool networking event / third birthday party. Some good pals were there, and I got to…
LocalGovCamb is the latest regional LocalGovCamp to be arranged. I’m helping put this together with Michele Ide-Smith. There are hardly any details, really. December this year or January 2010. Somewhere in Cambridge. Theme will be local government innovation. While the…
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett, Worstword Ho (1983)
Thanks to the ever-resourceful Peter Clark, Open Coffee has come to Cambridge. Excellent!
An item on the local TV new bulletin alerted me to Cambridgeshire County Council’s effort at citizen engagement on transport issues, as part of the Cambridgeshire Transport Commission. They’ve got a website and everything: Well, I think it’s a website,…
Just have to dash out a quick blog post on this as it’s just so brilliant! One of the presenters at today’s IDeA Performance event, Andrew Hudson-Smith of UCL (see Ingrid’s notes here and a video here) mentioned the use…
Paul Canning points us to some remarkably good stuff from government web folk from across the pond in the States: a white paper called Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government. Paul writes: That such a document could exist is solely…
I am having fun here in Stockholm providing social web backup to the Public Sector Summit – an event arranged by Cisco to discuss how technology and government can help each other. We have quite a bit of activity going…
Here are the slides from my talk at Public Sector Forums in Birmingham yesterday. Hopefully they make some kind of sense… Engagement through social networking View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: psf) It was an interesting day and…