GovCamp this Saturday
Blogging has been very light here just recently – GovCamp is basically taking over my life. Will be back on track next week, hopefully. Here’s the text of an email I sent round to members of the network last night…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
UkGovCamp 2010 – #ukgc10
The previous two UK government barcamps have been wonderful events – bringing people together to start and continue conversations about how web developments affect the public sector in this country. If we are going to run the event in January…
Barcamping today
This morning, over 130 people interested in the way government uses the web will be descending on London to, well, have a bit of a natter. There has already been plenty of chat on the event social network, and hopefully…
Barcamp on Ning
The upcoming Barcamp for UK government webby stuff now has a social network, thanks to Ning! In many ways, this is a copycat …err… following good practice attempt after the excellent network set up by Tim Davies for the UK…
Barcamp-Teacamp this Thursday (18/12/08)
Teacamps are the rather British regular get togethers for people interested in cool webby stuff in government. They take place every other Thursday at the House of Fraser cafe on Victoria Street. Turnout has been a little disappointing of late,…
BarcampUKGovWeb is back, back, baaaaack!
Tom Watson points us all to a new wiki for getting the next barcamp for UK (and elsewhere) government webbies going. Sign up and start thinking about you could present about! I have already put down that I’m interested in…
Teacamping this Thursday
Teacamps are the bi-weekly get togethers of people interested in government and the web, which emerged from January’s Barcamp. I don’t get along nearly as often as I would like – something that will hopefully change now I have a…
Government offline
The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?…
barcampukgovweb Developments
The community that formed around the barcamp for uk gov web types (hence the name) has been working hard to start developing idea and connections that can start to have a real beneficial effect on the way that public services…
For Immediate Release
For Immediate Release is one of my favourite podcasts, which has Shel Holtz, Neville Hobson and a host of other contributors talking social media, web 2.0 and how it affects public relations and business communications. It’s good stuff. Yesterday, Neville…