An online notebook
Next Saturday (14th July) sees LocalGovCamp coming back to Birmingham!
It’s a great opportunity for innovators across local government to get together, share problems and come up with solutions. It’s also an honour (and occasional inducer of panic) to be able to put the event together.
April may well be the cruellest month, but for me November was the busiest – and the illest (as in, I’ve been poorly. I’m not starting to talk “street”, you’ll be pleased to know*) as well. Kind of Digital seems to have had time to get settled in now, and we’ve so much work on … Keep reading
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 … Keep reading
Steph and I are already starting our planning for the next big UKGovCamp event, which will be held in January 2012 in London as per usual. This time though we are hoping to do something slightly different, with the incorporation of an extra day into the proceedings. We see this as being a ‘doing things’ … Keep reading
Saturday’s LocalGovCamp was a marvellous day, entirely thanks to the superb organisation of Digital Birmingham’s Simon Whitehouse and Sammy Williams; and of course the 130-odd people who turned up on the day, giving up the best part of their weekends to talk about work. Also: thanks to the great sponsors who made the event a … Keep reading