I have been meaning to write this post for a couple of weeks – ever since I saw an excellent presentation on the work at Barnet at a session at the SOLACE annual conference. the workshop was shared between Max Wilde (who in the Barnet lead for the project) and Nicola Millard (who is the …
We had our second VirtualTH project meeting yesterday so this is just a short update on that. The pilot is now full with Kirklees and Redbridge joining Chorley, Essex CC and North Lincs as pilot sites. We are also lucky to have Carl Haggerty participate as a ‘critical friend’ on the technology strand which is …
Ok then – this is not just a continuation of my “I need an iphone” lament but here is a quick article on the BBC site talking about the growth of the smart phone market. The striking quote is about the fact that mobile internet is poised for the kind of growth we saw for …
This post is really about trying to explain the mental framework by which I ‘organise’ the social web into different categories of behaviour and types of technologies. This is very much my own view but builds on frameworks and analysis by others which I referenced. I have written it as a glossary – please shout …
Though I am getting very excited about the technology for the virtual town hall (sad I know) the real challenges are I think in the social elements of creating a permanent civic space – a local public sphere (yes – lots of Habermas read this weekend). There are three main social challenges in my view: …
I’m trying to get a list together of published social networking policies – or at least published drafts). At the moment I have: Warwickshire Devon I am sure I have more of these lurking in my inbox but would really appreciate hearing from anyone else who can add to this list. Many thanks
Good piece in the guradian about the Talk about Local unconference – you can read about it here. Perhaps its my reaction to reading the Coleman book this weekend but I think this hyperlocalism is very important and very much the approach we are taking with the virtual town hall pilot. You can read about …
I’ve just finished reading “The Internet and Democratic Citizenship; Theory, Practice and Policy (by Stephen Coleman and Jay Blumler) so this my research note for my literature review so there are some observations and then a wrap up from me….this is a long one so you may just want the highlights: The analysis of the …
Perhaps it is just because I have only started twittering this week but there did seem to be a lot of talk about the new conservative party website – but perhaps the twitterati are always this vocal! Of the articles/blogs I’ve read today I thought the futuregov one was probably gives the best summary/analysis – …
Interesting article today from the Guardian – talking about the fact the BBC are planning a major website re-write with social media at the heart of things. You can read the article here. At Public-i where we do a lot of work using video for democratic projects we really saw a huge boost from the …