Four rules for councils’ democratic engagement
I like these slides, from Anthony: Four rules for councils' democratisation work View more documents from The Democratic Society.
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Government 2010
Government 2010 looks like it will be a lot of fun. It’s a conference about the future of government: Government 2010 is about improved government communications and more rapid delivery of services to citizens via the web, and web-enabled channels. It also features some people I really respect on the speaker list: Tom Watson Harry … Keep reading
Tim Davies on effective engagement
Tim Davies has posted an excellent response to my post on the myths of engaging with everyone. Recommended reading, and a great example of the quality of debate and content using blogging as a conversational medium (well, on Tim’s side, anyway!).
The myth of engaging with everyone
When I talk to people about the possibilities of engaging with people online, using social technology, I often get questioned about the numbers issue. Stuff like: How many people in our area actually use Twitter? What about people who don’t have web access? What do we do about people who don’t like using the internet … Keep reading
Selling the benefits
I attended the session by Liz Azyan and Simon Hume at Socitm09 on social media – which was ostensibly about the blocking of social networking sites in the workplace but which was also a general discussion around the benefits of this new way of working. As a follow up, a brief discussion took place on … Keep reading