People often talk about getting on the property ladder for first time buyers and this would possibly be the talking point for many graduates who have manage to secure their first job and now considering their first real estate purchase.
Sorry for the short notice, but I’ll be presenting in Birmingham today on the topic of Government-to-Citizens Communications.
Interview with Gemma Walford – Service Improvement Manager for Culture and Environment and Chris Carr – Customer Service Programme Manager.
Here you will find my interview with Don Tapscott who has authored or co-authored thirteen books on the application of technology in business and society.
So as you guys already know, I was at the LocalGovCamp in Lincoln last Friday and was fortunate enough to talk to Andrew Beeken (in video above), who was “the man of the hour” and ask him about what he thought about the whole unconference.
While I was at the Digital Engagement Event, I managed to catch up with Nick Appleyard who prepared David Bott’s presentation slides about “Universal connectivity 2012”. Nick is Technology Strategy Board’s Lead Technologist and he talks in detail about the Digital Britain Testbed in this interview.
A video created for a presentation to the ACT Minister’s Department, Australia as a means of communicating some of the “life reflecting art reflecting life” aspects of Web 2.0 and modern culture. Video clips are used for education purposes only and used under Fair Use Legislation. No challenge to the trademarks, copyright or intellectual property of the creators is intended.
I interview Dave Briggs, a community evangelist. What is a community evangelist anyways?
Dave Briggs writes about digital engagement and community building for government. Dave is Learning Pool’s Community Evangelist as well as a freelance consultant.
An interesting affair….
Almost everyday my inbox is filled with information or invitations to attend conferences and events on digital engagement, e-government, social media, local government and everything web 2.0. There’s some interesting conferences and events coming up on my calendar and I thought I’d share one with my readers.
Ian Laughton has been the Director of Nomad since its inception in 2003. As Chair of the Nomad Forum his role has been the overall delivery of the 4 million pound original project across its range of partner local authorities and the delivery of a sustainable Nomad Forum, events and activity.
Leon Yohai has worked in local government for over 24 years in areas including regeneration, homelessness, tenancy services and policy. He is currently at the very heart of an ambitious modernisation and regeneration programme worth £800 million. It has 10 key strands which, taken as a whole, will modernise and regenerate both service delivery and the infrastructure of the borough.
There has been enough stress surrounding the swine flu pandemic since its outbreak and the impact has caused major panic and distress to governments and citizens everywhere.
So how did things start off for Basildon District Council? It started off with attending lots of training, had lots of ideas, and did lots of research in the first 10 months.
Ever wondered what collaborative learning is? I’ve always had a few thoughts on what it could be and maybe took a logical guess or two but never quite understood why its so important to learning organizations and how they can be effective for learners.
So this was my first ‘gig’ at a conference. Have to say I was really shaking in my high heels (which were by the way, very uncomfortable! LOL) but glad to say I managed to pull through it with the support of a wonderful group of people who were very supportive and interactive throughout my session.
The minute I arrived at the conference, there was a feeling of being surrounded by people who were intellectually in tuned with their passion, skills, knowledge and desire to make an indelible mark within their areas of expertise. However they weren’t just people who were just there because it was apart of their jobs, but there was a genuine sense of wanting to make things better and learn as well as share stories of each other experiences.
As CEO of iStrategy Labs, Peter Corbett was the creative force behind Washington D.C.’s hugely successful Apps for Democracy contest. By engaging the software developer community in a contest atmosphere, he turned a $50,000 municipal investment into $2,300,000 in civic applications.
AbilityNet is a registered national charity (charity no. 1067673).with over 20 years experience helping people adapt and adjust their information and communications technology (ICT). We’re unique in what we do, working across the UK and beyond.
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This video features the creative and unique ways the U.S. Air Force is using New/Social Media to communicate and collectively generating ideas, experiences and knowledge with each other, family and friends as well as the public.
What the Moldova Protest and #AmazonFail might have in common.
About a week ago I met up with Stephen Dale at Layden House in London. It was such an honour to finally get to meet Steve after months of admiring his work in local government. Steve has published a couple of articles which you can find below.
I’ve been speaking to several local councils recently and noticed that alot of local council websites are still not Web 2.0. Although many were already on their way to apply Web 2.0 to their websites, I fear to think of those who haven’t even considered it.
I recently caught up with Simon Wakeman at Medway Council and asked him about Medways digital engagement activities. Simon is the Head of Marketing at Medway Council as well as a freelance communications consultant.
I met Glenn Shoosmith, founder of BookingBug at Mashup* event – Realtime Social Web on 29th January 2009 (organized by Simon Grice from BeLocal) and we talked about a new service that he is about to launch.
A short piece describing why government (specifically NOAA) needs to take advantage of social media in order to better serve its constituents.
We’ve recently been confronted with a change in weather here in England and our local government was expected to react to that change effectively and efficiently.
We are now living in a new age where the Internet is not just another source or another tool. Its become our way of life.
This post features the list of UK Local Councils on Youtube.
This video was created by PureOnlineGenius, an internet marketing agency in the U.K. dedicated to small and medium sized business.
I’ve recently been introduced to Social Innovation Camp and have been inspired by what they have achieved. It somehow gives me great inspiration and motivation to jump onto the bandwagon and do my bit for society in the near future.
This video was made after meeting Dave Briggs from www.davepress.net at British Library. We talked about the UKGovWeb09 and I was wondering whether there was a way to get more government officials to come to this event.
I thought it was only appropriate that since this is my first post, I’d share with you a glimpse of…