Likeminds
I had an enjoyable time at the Likeminds conference in Exeter yesterday (Friday 26th Feb). Before I start going on about the content of the event, I really ought to praise the organisers for the amazingly smooth way the event…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Tag Social Media
Movements this week
Another busy week this. Tomorrow I am speaking at 4Children’s 18th Annual Policy Conference, on the subject of engaging young people with social media. I understand Tim Davies was unavailable 😉 On Thursday Mary and I will be traveling down…
Podcasting
I had the pleasure of being asked to be a part of Gov 2.0 radio, a live phone-in podcast about government and the web based in the States. Due to timezone stuff it meant I had to stay up til…
UK GovCamp 2010
The UK govcamp event is happening on the 23rd January. Everyone should have had an email who has a ticket to come – if you think you ought to have had something, but haven’t, please let me know! It’s an…
Christmas reading
The pile of books I’ve been working my way through during the holidays.
Technology is not the thing
Last week I spoke at the Online Information conference. It was a session about Twitter, where Karen Blakeman did a great job explaining the whole thing, and how organisations can make use of it. Then I stepped up and told…
Getting started in the social web: Government 2.0
Some interesting slides from a Canadian perspective of this whole government and the internet thing, from Tamera Kremer. Getting started in the social web: Government 2.0 View more presentations from Tamera Kremer. Found via Craig Thomler‘s excellent eGov AU blog.
Learning Pool Breakfast events
Learning Pool‘s breakfast meetings are great opportunities for local authorities to get together over a croissant and a cup of tea and hear some great stories about how real change can be achieved in councils with the right blend of…
Policing 2.0: The Citizen and Social Media
While Andrew was so marvelously blogging Government 2010 last Thursday, I was at an event organised by the National Police Improvement Agency, giving a presentation which was an overview of web 2.0 and what it means for public sector services…
Twitter lists
Neville writes a post about Twitter lists, some new functionality recently released to users. An official blog post trailed it last month. Neville’s quite positive about it, and indeed it may well work for a lot of people. My view…