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An online notebook
I recently got a Kodak Zi8 video camera. It’s like a beefed up Flip and I think it should be considered the default choice for social reporters everywhere. I did this video review of it, which turned out even ropier…
On Monday and Tuesday of this week I will be spending a couple of days at the Digital Inclusion Conference, helping to make the event a little more, well, inclusive by doing some social reporting. It won’t just be me,…
I am rather excited to be live blogging the Digital Britain Summit tomorrow, providing one way for the many interested folk who were unable to attend to still find out what is being said, by who. It’s a really good…
I’m looking forward to tomorrow, as a gang of folk from DIUS‘s engagement team (led ably by Steph) and I will be spending the day reporting from the All Together Now event in London. Hosted by Channel 4, DIUS and…
Last week I covered what online services are good for covering events online – what is rapidly becoming known as ‘social reporting’, thanks to David Wilcox’s evangelism. It might also be useful to write a few notes about the physical…
David has written about covering events again as part of his investigation of the role of the social reporter. He writes: So on the one hand it is more difficult to charge for the logistics, and on the other hand…
David Wilcox has published another great thought-piece on social reporting and exactly what it is and where it fits: I’m delighted to find there’s increasing interest in social reporting around events … which may start with an enquiry about how…
…is happening over at IDeA Performance. This is a great initiative by IDeA, trying to open up the training and workshops they provide to anyone with an internet connection. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in local government…
Tomorrow I will be hanging out with loads of cool people at the Social Media Exchange, which has been marvelously organised by Jude Habib and Mark Ellis at sounddelivery. I’m helping out by running a couple of sessions, but also…
Image credit: tricky Tidying up a few bits on the IDeA Performance site, and seeing Steven Tuck’s comment on my previous post about it, I thought about how these techniques could be used in different situations within local government. After…
More great stuff from David Wilcox musing on the experience of social reporting in Portugal. Whilst there, he was lucky enough to come across Etienne Wenger, a highly regarded thinker in the field of knowledge management and learning, who I…
David Wilcox, the godfather of the social reporting concept, has written up his reflections from a couple of days spent at an event in Portugal: What was unusual, in my experience, was that we had the benefit of a three…
The Cisco08.com site is being displayed all around the Clarion Hotel here in Stockholm on big displays: This is a great way of letting people know that the content is there, and it has attracted quite a lot interest amongst…
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…
I have been rather enjoying myself on my trip to Sweden today, even after a very short night’s sleep in the world’s smallest hotel room. I kind of even enjoyed waiting for a bus at 4.25am under Heathrow’s terminal 4:…
Am reading Gordon Burns’ Born Yesterday at the moment. Burn is one of my favourite writers, whether he’s producing non-fiction such as his remarkable books about serial killers (Peter Sutcliffe in Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son; Fred and Rose West in…