An online notebook
Ingrid has a very nice post about the training my good friend Steve Dale and I provided to some folk at the Local Government Association and the Improvement and Development Agency today. I think people left the room enthused. A colleague whose arm I twisted to attend the course (when I was worried it wasn’t … Keep reading
Edelman have published an interesting white paper on what lessons can be learnt from Obama’s use of the social web in his campaign. It’s worth a read. Here’s the headline list of learning points: Start early Build to scale Innovate where necessary; do everything incrementally better Make it easy to find, forward and act Pick … Keep reading
I wasn’t sure whether or not to blog about this. But I think I ought to, simply because this is such a cracking example of how badly digital engagement can be, and how easy it could be made much better. My local authority, South Cambridgeshire District Council, has a modest announcement on its homepage: Great! … Keep reading
Here’s more proof. Birmingham City Council are asking for people’s views on their ‘Big City Plan’. They have even created a website to help people to do so. I asked Jon Bounds, Birmingham blogger extraordinaire, what was wrong with the Council’s approach. He answered: Not so much “wrong” per-se as we thought helping discussion (rather … Keep reading
…was the title of the talk I was asked to give at the Central London Branch of the British Computer Society last Thursday. Here are my minimalist* slides: The search for shared meaning View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: bcs) What was great to see was the Twitter back channel in operation, with … Keep reading