Knowledge Hub This is a hastily written post about Knowledge Hub (KH), which replaced the popular Communities of Practice (CoP) site for people who work in and around UK local government. According to the Local Government Association (LGA), Knowledge Hub is…
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Knowledge Hub: Good CoP or Bad CoP?
Tagged with: closing down, collaboration, knowledge Hub, LGA, LocalGov, social media, weeklyblogclub
Posted in LocalGov, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, weekly blog club
Posted in LocalGov, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, weekly blog club
Why on earth sponsor an Unconference?
No hard-sell I’ve never really thought about ‘why’ sponsors sponsor unconferences – I’m just glad they do. At each event I do the rounds of the stands, gratefully grabbing my share of the mugs, pens, t shirts, special offers and…
Tagged with: Blog, BlueLightCamp, Hackathon, open data, UKBLC13, Unconference
Posted in apps, BluelightCamp, Events, Open Data, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in apps, BluelightCamp, Events, Open Data, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Unconference, weekly blog club
Blue Light Camp: Coming in from the cold
It’s been a bit quiet on the BlueLightCamp blog recently. Apart from Sasha’s post last week, nothing since November. But that doesn’t mean no activity – on the contrary. Hartley Wintney fire brigade members on board their fire engine in…
Tagged with: Blog, BlueLight Camp, social media, Unconference
Posted in BluelightCamp, Events, LocalGov, Open Data, Social Media, Technology, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in BluelightCamp, Events, LocalGov, Open Data, Social Media, Technology, Unconference, weekly blog club
Getting the measure of social media
Must we measure? In November, Emer Coleman asked: Social media – Must we measure? In a fascinating post, Emer discusses how tricky it is to present the benefits of social media in traditional business cases. Emer argues that: Making a business case…
Tagged with: Blog, Facebook, Google, measurement, open data, social media, social media metrics, social media stats, Twitter
Posted in Facebook, LocalGov, Open Data, Social Media, Technology, UKGC13, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in Facebook, LocalGov, Open Data, Social Media, Technology, UKGC13, Unconference, weekly blog club
Doing more with digital
Uk GovCamp It’s just over a year since I attended THE annual event for people interested in public sector digital tech: UK GovCamp. I raved blogged about it here. According to organisers Steph Gray (Helpful Technology) and Dave Briggs (KindofDigital):…
Tagged with: Blog, digital, public sector, social media, UK GovCamp, UKGC13, Unconference
Posted in Events, Social Media, Technology, UKGC13, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in Events, Social Media, Technology, UKGC13, Unconference, weekly blog club
Local social media usage: x months on
I originally wrote this post in September 2012, and updated it at the end of November 2012 to take account of new stats. The charts will update when I enter new stats, but the commentary may not reflect that for a…
Tagged with: Facebook statistics, LinkedIn, social media, social media stats
Posted in Facebook, Social Media, Technology, weekly blog club
Posted in Facebook, Social Media, Technology, weekly blog club
BlueLight Camp: Post of posts
Planning for BlueLight Camp 2013 is well under way, and more information will be published about the event on the BlueLightCamp site shortly. In the meantime, I thought it worth highlighting some of the articles written about the first BlueLight Camp, held…
Tagged with: Blog, bloggers, BlueLight Camp, collaboration, communication, emergency services, highlights, social media, Twitter, Unconference
Posted in blogging, BluelightCamp, Events, Social Media, Technology, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in blogging, BluelightCamp, Events, Social Media, Technology, Unconference, weekly blog club
A local GDS, for Local People
In case you aren’t familiar with it, GDS is the acronym for the Government Digital Service, which was set-up by the Cabinet Office to ‘transform’ government digital services. GDS is responsible for – amongst other things – the single government domain.…
Tagged with: collaboration, GDS, Local Government, Sharing, Unconference, yammer
Posted in apps, LocalGov, Sociable Enterprise, Technology, weekly blog club, WordPress
Posted in apps, LocalGov, Sociable Enterprise, Technology, weekly blog club, WordPress
High Vis for economic data
Last time, I wrote about my experience of being a guest host for WeeklyBlogClub. At the end, I included a quick visualisation that I’d made using Mindmeister, a mind-mapping tool. I’d used Mindmeister to help identify links between posts as…
Internal Social Media: “Scary Monsters”?
Joined-up thinking ‘Collaboration’, ‘Cooperation’, and ‘Joined-up’ thinking – just a few of the terms used by organisations delivering public services. Authorities who have traditionally done their own thing are finding ways to reduce costs, improve productivity and streamline services. Joint procurements…
Tagged with: Blogging, communication, social media, yammer
Posted in blogging, Social Media, Technology, weekly blog club, Yammer
Posted in blogging, Social Media, Technology, weekly blog club, Yammer