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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.

Digital engagement workshop in Peterborough on 25th May

May 11, 2011

Just a quick reminder about this event folks – there’s a few places still available.

All the details are here: http://kindofdigital.com/pboro25may/

It will be a great day, I promise.

Here comes Noot – the public sector social business tool

May 6, 2011

I’ve written loads in the past about the importance of using social technology in the workplace, especially in the public sector.

It’s great for tearing down silos, sharing knowledge, making the most of talent, completing projects successfully and maybe making life a bit more interesting.

One bit of technology I have had my eye on for a while is a bit of open source loveliness called Open Atrium, which is based on the popular and powerful Drupal framework.

What really caught my attention was that it was announced recently that the White House were using it to collaborate with. This is a bit of software that means business.

So I was delighted when I started talking with my good pals Harry and Rupert at Neontribe – web developers and user experience legends from Norwich (and who are organising RewiredState Norfolk this weekend, which you really ought to get to if you can). It turns out that they live and breath Drupal, and whats more, had started to get enquiries about OpenAtrium themselves.

We put our heads together and came up with Noot. Noot is a hosted Open Atrium offering aimed squarely at the public sector here in the UK. The Neontribe gang handle all the technical stuff, while Kind of Digital provides the consultancy and training to make sure customers get the most out of their investment.

Noot provides you with:

Groups, allowing people across your organisation or from partner organisations to get together and collaborate.
Discussions, so folk can talk to one another.
Collaborative authoring, allowing people to jointly create and edit documents.
Project and task management, helping to get stuff done
File uploading and sharing
Yammer or Twitter style status updates

…and a bunch of other cool stuff. What’s more, we’re going to be actively listening to users and developing more features to provide the functionality people really need.

So whether you just want to get people in your organisation talking to each other, want to manage cross departmental projects better, or start doing some serious partnership collaboration, Noot could well be the technology that suits your people and your process.

We’re still tidying things up, getting our marketing messages right and figuring out just how much we are going to charge for this thing. In the meantime, do follow Noot on Twitter, and bookmark the homepage so you know where to go to find out more.

If you’d like a demo or an early chat about Noot, you know where I am.

Micro-participation project

April 23, 2011

We’re starting an open innovation-y project at Kind of Digital about micro-participation.

Do get involved!

Digital engagement workshop, Peterborough, 25th May

April 18, 2011

Introduction to Digital Engagement Workshop

Wednesday, 25th May, 2011 – The Bull Hotel, Peterborough

We are delighted to announce this workshop introducing local authorities to the opportunity offered by the web and social media to enable effective engagement with citizens and communities.

Facilitated by Kind of Digital’s Director, Dave Briggs, who has a wealth of experience advising government on digital engagement at all levels – from small local authorities to 10 Downing Street – attendees will come away with a full grasp of the background and potential of this work as well as a practical toolkit to get underway.

The agenda, a blended mixture of engaging talks, group discussion and practical exercises, will include the following sessions:

How local authorities can use the web and social networks to engage citizens and communities
Case studies of good practice use of emerging technology to engage by those involved in local government
How to develop a digital engagement strategy for your work
Choosing the right tools and approach to meet your objectives
Getting around organisational barriers to implementing your plan

Further support

As well as the training on the day, attendees will benefit from post-event support and learning. This includes exclusive access to a follow-up web conference and an online support forum.

Prices

If you book your place before 6th May, you receive the benefit of an early bird discount, so don’t delay!

Early bird price – £125 + VAT
Standard price – £150 + VAT

Book now!

Find out more details – including a full agenda – and book at www.kindofdigital.com/pboro25may now!

Alternatively, get in touch:

Phone: 020 3286 5186

Email: hello@kindofdigital.com

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