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An online notebook
Interesting writing project from Ben Welby – The Future of (Public Sector) Product Management in a Vibe Coded World: Public service teams are at a kairos moment: a time when a new technical capability invites us to rethink almost everything…
CIPFA have published a report entitled Exploring blockchain technologies for collaboration and partnerships [PDF warning]. The very first statement of the executive summary is problematic. Blockchain technology has emerged as a promising solution for collaboration and partnerships, providing a secure…
One of the key skills (or roles) that I bang on about a lot when I am delivering training to customers is community management. I talk about it a fair bit on this blog too. One of the first things…
I wrote a thing for the Guardian’s Public Leaders’ Network: The explosion in online innovation throughout public services is seeing more and more activity taking place on the net, whether via interactive websites, or mobile applications. Networks such as Twitter…
Catherine Howe on the need for the organisations delivering public services to be open ones: I have an underlying belief, and often unstated, belief that there is need to look at how we transition large organisations within the public sector…
One thing that really came out of the social media strategy seminar we ran last week was that it’s vital for an organisation to have a decent handle on just why they want to be doing this stuff. I think…
Ingrid Koehler led a really interesting session at the weekend’s GovCamp about blogging in the public sector and how it might be supported and promoted (the session later went on to cover the excellent LGovSM twitter chats that happen on…
My good friend Steph Gray is organising a fab little event to get public sector types and existing online communities of interest together to see how they can work together. It’s a great idea for an event and should be…
I am having fun here in Stockholm providing social web backup to the Public Sector Summit – an event arranged by Cisco to discuss how technology and government can help each other. We have quite a bit of activity going…
LGSearch is something of an anomaly in my ‘portfolio’ of stuff I’ve made in that is actually works and is useful. I built it a couple of years ago while working as Risk Management Officer at a County Council. Essentially,…
I had the pleasure of talking to Patrick Butler of the Guardian the other day on the subject of public sector types blogging. He did a jolly good job of editing down everything I said into one paragraph in his…
Where do government and other public sector folk get their news from? Info4Local eGov Monitor GCN Kable Individual government department websites Any others? I wonder if there is a possibility for putting together a one-stop-shop for news, aggregating the popular…
…but they do have to be sensible about it. The UK blogosphere is getting jolly excited about the case of the Civil Serf blog (no point linking to it, it’s gone now) which has disappeared following mainstream media interest in…
Interesting report published by Quocirca on behalf on IBM, on the topic of the opportunities web 2.0 and social media offers the public sector: Social networking can help public sector bodies interact to a far greater extent with citizens as…
The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?…