Bit of a hiatus on the blogging – mainly down to the fact that I have a new job. Still at Public-i but have been appointed as Chief Exec (press release here if you want to the proof!). Its a huge privilege as we have an exciting year ahead – but its been a busy …
I had a really interesting morning last week at the Policing Pledge conference which was aimed at best practice around the new policing pledge. I ran two workshops and I wanted to share the slides here: The groups where both very tolerant of both my crazed enthusiasm for the subject and also of my relative …
Just a quick note on my excellent day in Chorley on Monday. We were running through the internal workshop agenda for the Virtual Town Hall project which is aimed at: Project management stuff: Getting the internal team fully briefed on the project Getting support from senior managers and from key members Giving an overview of …
Something of a blog hiatus as I have had multiple laptop traumas – am actually looking forward to catching up with it – just shows this blogging business is addictive. I need to add a post from the ministerial conference in Malmo, our Europetitions and also our Virtual Town Hall meeting in Chorley. But more …
So…not an original topic as everyone interested in social media is currently navel gazing on the same subject but you can’t have a research diary without recording these thoughts…so here we go….current twitter status: 37 tweets in with 49 followers and following 85 people so its early days but my thoughts to date are: I …
Too much time at the desk results in a new theme for the blog…….an exercise in design based futility…..but I am sure the perfect theme is out there….
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