An online notebook
Over the next three days, a rather special event is taking place online – a virtual conference for council officers and members to learn about the benefits of using social media to engage with communities. It’s happening on the IDeA Community of Practice platform, which does mean there are a couple of hoops to jump … Keep reading
I’m going to be facilitating an online conference with Steve, Ingrid and others, which will be all about encouraging councillors to make better use of social web technology. It will be happening on a Community of Practice, meaning that there is no limit on how many people can be involved, and no travelling either! Here’s … Keep reading
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
This Friday (9th January 2009) the Improvement and Development Agency and LARCI are holding an event entitled Performance management plus: the next stage of performance management for operational improvement. Sounds like heavy stuff, but with a great mixture of speakers and workshop sessions I’m sure it will be a great day. I have a little … Keep reading
John Hayes, a Director at the Improvement & Development Agency, has started a blog – and started it really promisingly, too: So, having taking my own personal plunge into this Web 2 pool with this my first blog, I’m hoping I can encourage other local government staff and councilors to use this medium as an … Keep reading