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Quick update – there’s now a placeholder site for #virtualgovcamp live at (it currently forwards to a wordpress.com blog) and a Twitter account @virtualgovcamp. At some point I will get all the content from the blog posts here replicated…
I’d like to propose VirtualGovCamp. I’ve just been made aware that the lovely folks at LocalGovDigital are themselves working on a local version of a virtual unconference type event. That should be awesome, but I think my idea is sufficiently different…
There are lots of guides out there on using Yammer, the internal social networking tool – how to set up a network, build your profile and so on. However, that’s not all there is to Yammer and a key skill…
There was a lot of interest in my last webinar on Think Digital, where I talked through the ten principles fairly briefly, just to give folk an overview of what I am on about. I think it’s time to go…
The term digital transformation is being bandied about rather a lot at the moment. That’s fine – people often argue about words and phrases and what they mean and whether they are helpful. Usually they aren’t perfect but do a…
Today I ran the Think Digital webinar for the first time. I think it went ok. You can judge for yourself however, by watching the video.
Nice simple video from Twitter.
Thanks for all the interest shown in the 10 Think Digital principles so far. I’m working on building on them to make them even more useful. Part of this is to run a webinar explaining them in more detail, and…
I’ve found myself banging on a lot recently at events and other engagements about pretty much the same stuff. It’s what organisations need to do to grasp the digital opportunity – but which isn’t about actual tools on the internet.…
I blogged today at dxw on the topic of what can be expected from the upcoming version 4.0 of WordPress.
Issue 11 of my newsletter was sent out this morning. You can read it on the web here to see what it’s like. If you are already getting email alerts for this blog, don’t worry – the newsletter contains completely…
This is a bit of a precursor to my session at CommsCamp on Monday, but also links in with a chat I was having with Stephen Hale yesterday. It strikes me that there is a clear role for community management…
Lucy Watt shares an excellent, honest post on the FutureGov blog about their learning from the PSLaunchpad project. Having regularly spoken to one of the teams on the launchpad, Martin Howitt and Lucy Knight from Devon, I’m aware of the…
I’m looking forward to CommsCamp14 in a week’s time, and have pitched a couple of session ideas on the event’s Ideascale site: User centred comms What does user centred comms look like? Who actually is the customer? How do we…
Love this slide deck talking about lessons learned by a tech startup entrepreneur. [slideshare id=9628635&doc=10thingsivedonewrongennovation-111010061148-phpapp02]
Pretty damning stuff from Cllr Roger Gambba-Jones: If somebody was to ask me about becoming a councillor nowadays, I’m not sure what I would tell them were the benefits of doing so and I don’t mean to the councillor. Government…
Here’s my fifth podcast. This is becoming a thing! I’m joined in this episode by Anne McCrossan, who runs Visceral Business. Anne’s thing is getting organisations perform as genuinely social businesses. Here’s a link to download the original mp3…
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. There’s a kitbag of tools and approaches that can be used to tackle the problems facing us.…
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Communities always come up a lot, in terms of engagement and also new methods of service delivery.…
I found LocalGovCamp a really refreshing and cheering event this year. I’m going to spend a few quick posts writing up my thoughts. Mary McKenna brilliantly facilitated an excellent discussion on collaboration – why it is needed, why it hasn’t…