ukgovcamp – Page 2 – Dave Briggs

Bookmarks for April 6th through April 27th

April 27, 2011

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

How to beat Apple – Interesting read.
Micro-Participation In Online Consultations – NIce summary and contribution to the discussion.
Coté’s People Over Process » 3 Tips on Scaling Agile Development – "At some point, adopting Agile development becomes an organizational change management exercise that has little do with Agile itself."
Cash for QuangoCamp – Great work @jukesie getting this going
How to waste public funds and alienate voters – How to spot box ticking exercises. Good stuff from Edward at Involve.
The New Guy’s Computer – (37signals) – Nice list of handy Mac tools.
Recipe For Baked WordPress – Quick guide to making your WP site a bit more stable.
Open Compute Project – Facebook opens up their infrastructure.
On innovation: How to make trouble productively – Ten nice tips.
I’m worried about the Social Media Folk in Localgov – How to get by in from the powers that be, from @carlhaggerty

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

LocalGovCamp tickets available!

April 26, 2011

LocalGovCamp is coming back to Birmingham on the 18th June!

200 of the most innovative and creative people in the local government sector will be coming together on a Saturday to talk about making things better – sometimes with technology, sometimes not.

LocalGovCamp is an unconference – basically a conference that’s fun. There’s no agenda until we sort it out on the day – which means no keynoters, no grandstanding and just good conversations.

Grab your ticket on Eventbrite while you can.

We’re also still looking for sponsors, so do get in touch if you’d like to help out.

Announcing MailCamp: effective email marketing in the public sector

April 13, 2011

A cross post from Steph’s blog to help publicise this event!

Just a quick one to pimp MailCamp11, a free show + tell event about email marketing in the public sector, now confirmed for 12 May at the Dept of Communities and Local Government.

MailCamp

Everyone’s on a budget, and wants to make their digital channels work harder. Social media matters, but nothing drives traffic and reminds people what you’re doing like a good email newsletter or alert. But we’re all busy, and optimising our newsletters and email alerts often isn’t top of the list.

The long-promised spin-off event from UKGovcamp, MailCamp is a one-off show & tell event on 12 May for people interested in how the public sector uses email marketing, newsletter and alerts to engage its audiences. Come along to a free afternoon of ideas and stories, bringing your own examples, tips and questions.

To find out more and register your interest in coming along, check out http://mailcamp.ukgovcamp.com. And spread the word!

Bookmarks for January 27th through February 19th

February 19, 2011

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Big Society – if the price is right – Interesting views on Big Society from a blogging councillor within my local district.
The impact of IT decisions on organizational culture – O’Reilly Radar – "It's said that with great power comes great responsibility. Among business functions, the IT group has disproportionate control over what can and can't happen in an organization."
Have your say – Code of recommended practice for local authorities – DCLG's online consultation discussing how data should be made available by councils.
Thriving too: Big Society: Community Organising – Why? – Great post on the role of the community organiser
Around the Local Government World in Ten Days – Nice writeup of a bunch of interesting events and meetings by Carrie
Local engagement in the land of big sky and sausages – Great blog post picking up my 'place as open source system' idea by @jiiiii
Are you social or anti-social? – Interesting, challenging stuff from @joannejacobs
What does ‘cloud’ mean for the public sector? – Nice post written by @lesteph for Huddle summing up our webinar chat about cloud in government.
Coté’s People Over Process » The US Federal Government and Open Source – Really interesting overview from @cote
5 Things we learned from UK GovCamp 11 | Delib Blog – Nice summary from the guys at Delib!

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

Bookmarks for January 10th through January 24th

January 24, 2011

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

#UKGC11: Flickr, Wikipedia and Open Streetmap for local authorities – Great write up of an interesting session from @abeeken
Reworking the public sector | Public sector pm – Notes on a great topic at #ukgc11
Uk GovCamp 2011 | Partridgej’s Blog – Nice summary of the #police discussion at #ukgc11 from @jiiiii
The Plan is not the Objective – Superb stuff from @curiousc on agile policy making talks at #ukgc11
Considering PaaS – Fabulously useful post on cloud platform stuff from @cote
6 ways to make open innovation easier – 100% Open – Great tips.
Public Data Corporation to free up public data and drive innovation – Interesting. Not least because I'm not convinced there's much money to be made by anyone here – certainly not by small suppliers anyway.
Transport’s £2.7m spend on online game – Shame – a potentially good idea made ridiculous by spending too much money on it.
My GovCamp wishlist (and yours) – Thanks to Simon for sharing his ideas for this year's GovCamp.
How To Build An Online Community – The Ultimate List of Resources (Updated) – Great list of resources from Rich Millington on building online communities- vital reading.
As VLC for iPhone, iPad Pulled from App Store, What’s the Future for GPL Apps? – Interesting post on whether open sources licences like the GPL are incompatible with Apple (and maybe other) app stores T&Cs.

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

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