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…
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Why on earth sponsor an Unconference?
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
HOW TO GET AHEAD IN GOVCAMPING
This isn’t a ‘how-to’ blog post at all. I just wanted to use the title. UKGovCamp13: A Fab event Steph and Dave did their usual marvellous job, making UKGovCamp appear effortless, with it passing off without a hitch (well, second…
Tagged with: 3D Printing, Blog, GovCamp, UK GovCamp, UKGC13, Unconference
Posted in Events, UKGC13, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in Events, UKGC13, 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
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
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
Unconferences: Good, Bad or Ugly?
This is the second part of a joint effort by Sasha Taylor and Mark Braggins. In this post we talk about two topics we’re finding difficult to keep entirely separate: #lgovsm (a weekly chat on Twitter for Local Gov social media…
Tagged with: LocalGovCamp, social media, Twitter, Unconference
Posted in blogging, Unconference, weekly blog club
Posted in blogging, Unconference, weekly blog club
Reflections on events
Over the last year or so I’ve attended a bunch of ‘unconference‘ events. In this post I thought I’d take a look back at some of them. All events have something worth sharing, and most I’ve attended have had shed-loads; I’ve therefore…
Tagged with: Bambuser, Remote attendee, social media, technology, Twitter, Unconference, webcast
Posted in Events, Technology, Twitter
Posted in Events, Technology, Twitter
Puffin Island (IslandGovCamp)
There was barely a cloud in the sky during the whole of IslandGovCamp. Gorgeous weather prevailed throughout. In the absence of real clouds, I decided to make one instead and make it colourful and interactive. Most of the words are clickable…
Tagged with: IslandGovCamp, Orkney, social media, Tag cloud, technology, Twitter, Unconference, visualisation, word cloud
Posted in Events, Technology, Twitter
Posted in Events, Technology, Twitter
BlueLightCamp: Weekend Camping (Pt1)
First thing in the morning on Sunday 15th April there was barely a cloud in the sky above Manchester. The sun shone, the sky was blue, and I was off camping. It was a few miles walk to the camp…
Tagged with: BlueLight Camp, Local Government, Police, technology, tools, Twitter, Unconference, webcast
Posted in Events, Social Media, Technology
Posted in Events, Social Media, Technology