Project managers’ localgovcamp today

The latest in the seemingly unstoppable movement of localgovcamps is happening today, in Cheltenham. It’s subject specific, and is going to be all about project management and that sort of thing. Great work by the team at Cheltenham Borough Council…

LocalGovCamp London

Thursday’s LocalGovCamp in London was superbly organised by Anke Holst and her team. I was involved in one session, which was to by about internet culture and whether that’s the interesting thing local government ought to be taking on board,…

Yet more gadding about

Another busy week, this one. On Wednesday, Learning Pool are hosting another local government breakfast meeting, at Coventry City Council’s offices. We’ll have a range of contributors from local authorities, as well as me. Details here – do come if…

LocalGovCamp for project managers

A localgovcamp event for project and programme managers is taking place at Cheltenham Borough Council on April 27th, organised by Jon Hyde. You can find out all you need to know on the event Ning site, or on the Community…

LocalGovCamp London is on!

We’ll keep it *very* local so as to not get confused with UKGC10. This will be an all-day event on (or around) 25 Feb in partnership with IDeA. Venue will be Central London. Exact date and location tbc. Themes will…

OpenSpaceDevon

Carl Haggerty has launched a great initiative down in Devon: Carl writes: It would be great to get public sector professionals, voluntary organisations and business people involved in these areas all together and working through some of these issues and…

LocalGovCamp Lincoln

Last Friday saw LocalGovCamp moving to Lincoln for the first of the follow up days. Learning Pool were happy to help out with some sponsorship of the event, which was marvelously organised and convened by Andrew Beeken of Lincoln City…

Upcoming events

I’ve got a few speaking engagements coming up, as well as other events that look like fun… 1. Developing Public Sector Communications through Social Media, 15th September, London This is an LGC event, spending the whole day talking about how…

Get a job in local gov social media

Brighton and Hove City Council are advertising for a Social Media Officer! You are a Facebook pro, the fastest Twitter tweeter on the planet? Do you love nothing more but connecting with folks online? Are you one step ahead of…

LocalGovCamb

LocalGovCamb is the latest regional LocalGovCamp to be arranged. I’m helping put this together with Michele Ide-Smith. There are hardly any details, really. December this year or January 2010. Somewhere in Cambridge. Theme will be local government innovation. While the…