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What I’ve been reading

August 17, 2011

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

Ministry of Lorem: filler text generated from UK government press releases – Bonkers but strangely compelling site from @lesteph
Social media can help riot-hit communities recover – "In all the furore over social media's inflammatory role in the riots, little has been said about how local networks can bring neighbourhoods together"
LinkedGov is hiring! – Jobs for geeks
Leaders Blog – Nice blog from the Leader of Oldham Council
LocalGovCamp & Green Flags « Word on the Street – Nice blog post by Sandwell Council's Chief Exec Jan Britton.

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

Storycamp

July 27, 2011

After being suitably inspired at June’s LocalGovCamp, the effervescent Nicky Getgood has been working away to get StoryCamp up and running.

She describes it thus:

StoryCamp is a time and picturesque space for storytellers (digital or otherwise), independent publishers, those in local government, hyperlocal-land and beyond to meet, share stories and ways and means of telling them.

If you can see the importance of telling a powerful story to communicate and would like to think, discuss and learn more about how to do this effectively, or share examples of storytelling that has had a real impact, then StoryCamp is for you!

It’s taking place on October 1st, in Ludlow in Shropshire.

There’s a blog, and an organising group, and you can sign up for the event here. I think it’s going to be great.

What I’ve been reading

July 14, 2011

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

The Case Against Online Participation and Government As A Platform – "the question is: should we just give up and consider open government and government 2.0 an interesting, nice-to-have, but hard-to-sustain development, and perhaps let it die?"
Social media for social care: how Monmouthshire foster carers support each other with Yammer – helen reynolds – Nice little case study.
Huffington Post UK: What does it add? – Good stuff on the rather underwhelming launch of HuffPo UK – which has been rather overshadowed by other media news this week.
Epic | Mobile learning – Epic's mobile learning stuff looks really interesting.
Home :: PetitionYourCouncil.com – MySociety makes local e-petitions more findable.

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

Ken Eastwood on LocalGovCamp

July 14, 2011

Barnsley Council, and Public Sector Nomads’ Ken Eastwood has written a lovely, and important, blog post about his experience of LocalGovCamp:

The 200 or so attendees again demonstrated that there is genuine talent within the sector and an interest in innovation that transcends the traditional 9 to 5. However, it was all too apparent that many of these people are held back, they are blocked from affecting change, from doing things differently and from doing different things. In many cases they are frustrated by their lack of influence and by local government’s resistance to change and bottom up innovation.

Go read the whole thing!

What I’ve been reading

June 29, 2011

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

2011 London Social Business Summit – Great content from this event.
Introducing South West LocalGovCamp #swlocalgc « Carl’s Notepad – This should be a good one!
’100 million comments a year’ – mutual support and advice in a shrinking state – How government could be making better use of online communities – great stuff from Will Perrin.
Misleading money-saving claims help no one – Ben Goldacre exposes the lazy thinking involved in some "research" about council spending – curiously promoted by CLG.
BBC News – Google’s Chromebook – lost in the cloud? – Interesting review of the new Chrome based laptops.
A little local difficulty – honestlyreal – A very useful primer on Local DirectGov
How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs – Really nice workflow system.

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.

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