evaluation – Dave Briggs

What I’ve been reading

May 16, 2012

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

BDU: Big Data – E-learning about "big data" which people keep telling me is going to be important.
WP2Cloud – Interesting one for WordPress dorks (like me). Stores all your WP site stuff in Amazon's cloud.
Announcing Open Space South West #OpenSSW – Sounds like it will be a fun event – well done Carl Haggerty!
Sir Bob Kerslake: why social media is a vital tool for the civil service – …and not just the civil service of course. Nice to see positive noises from the top
Antibodies, Attack Dogs, and Success Cats: 3 New Product Lessons – Even innovating in innovation organisations isn't easy.
Acting on the annual user survey | Stephen Hale – Great open discussion about website user happiness.

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

What I’ve been reading

October 20, 2011

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Getting the digital debate going – Jimmy Leach announces the FCO's conference on cyberspace. Sounds interesting!
Mid year review: the state of DH digital – Great honest review of activity in digital at the Dept Health
Ofsted Parent View – Interesting "Parent's Opinion" style school feedback site from Ofsted.
Staff, social media policies and managing risk – Good stuff from Simon Wakeman on the need for organisations to have a clear approach to social media and networking.
Trimming the long tail – the danger of stripping back our websites – Interesting addition to the debate around the top task focus on local government websites.
Introduction to Databases – Stanford University – Free online course. Interesting!
Thinktanks are in crisis. To survive, they must become ‘do tanks’ – "For thinktanks to be effective, they must be imaginative and radical. But a funding crisis is making them increasing bland."

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

Evaluating digital engagement

August 16, 2011

A record number of people took part in our live web chat on evaluating online engagement.

Whilst in the course of the hour we didn’t exactly solve the issues, the discussion threw up some great examples and ideas and everyone who took part will have taken something useful away with them.

You can relive the chat using the CoverItLive widget on the Kind of Digital website, or download a rather basically formatted PDF transcript.

Hope it’s useful!

News of the next live web chat shortly…

Webchatting: barriers and evaluation

July 27, 2011

Yesterday’s live Kind of Digital web chat about overcoming barriers to implementing social media went really well.

You can relive the whole thing over on the KoD website, or download a rather basic PDF of the transcript.

Our next chat has been scheduled in for Tuesday, August 16th at 11am BST. It’s going to be on the thorny subject of evaluation of digital engagement activity – great!

You can sign up for a reminder over here – hope you see you there!

Auditing digital engagement

June 2, 2011

One of the things that comes out of the training we do is that evaluating online engagement is hard. What’s more, just finding out whether you are doing the right things is tricky too.

Looking at other people’s good practice can help, but unless you have a couple of days spare, finding the time is tricky.

So, we’d like to present our Digital Engagement Audits as a nice quick solution to this problem.

What we’ll do is do some research into your current online engagement efforts and provide some feedbeck. We’ll also take a look around your local area and tell you about the communities, blogs and tweeters already active nearby. Finally, you get an action plan of some quick tasks that will help improve your efforts.

You get a report, and a web conference that goes through all the findings. The process shouldn’t take longer than a week, and it aims to be practical, quick and lightweight.

The cost is £1,500 + VAT and you can get one now by simply getting in touch and asking for one.

More details on the dedicated page, or here’s a PDF flyer you can download, print and show to your boss.

Cross posted from the Kind of Digital blog.

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