I have just got back from a trip to Slovakia for our latest CitzenScape project meeting. As ever on these trips the hospitality was amazing and we got a lot done – we also seemed to drink rather a lot but that’s also typical of these trips! Some general observations are below. The first thing …
I have had a really interesting week and wanted to write a note on it before it drifted off and got filed somewhere in my memory for later retrieval as a few things have happened which have really helped tie together some thoughts around community building with a social purpose – in essence what we …
The Citizenscape December project meeting went much better than I hoped with the balance being in favour of actual work rather than EU project talk. Main points are: We made some real progress with the actual content for the sites and I believe that if we can keep to the development schedule then we will …
The team is going to get together in December in Brighton and apart from finding somewhere really good to take them to dinner I want to be clear on the objectives for the meeting: There are as ever some EU project formalities which need to be gone over – not the least because we have a …
I found this useful sumamry of an action research diary (http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arr/arow/rdiary.html). The first thing that struck me was the need for me to have more structure in my posts. This suggests splitting posts under the following sections: Reflection Plan Action Observation So I might give this a go. I have at least added these as …
One of the things we are trying to achieve with the project is a truely shared webspace that has been defined by allof the users and not just by the host organisation. When you try and create this kind of event with local government you end up talking about stakeholder meetings. This really is a …