An online notebook
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 techniques within digital engagement that isn’t really being done effectively at the moment – at … Keep reading
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 transformative impact the experience had on them, and their attitude to work. As Martin himself … Keep reading
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 find out what they want to know and how they want to know it? Online … Keep reading
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 funding cuts and more and more centralisation of power, hidden behind the facade of Localism, … Keep reading