How design can improve your Twitter engagement and give it a human face
We often experience Twitter tips overload, but not a lot of design tips… Here’s one for the list!
We often experience Twitter tips overload, but not a lot of design tips… Here’s one for the list!
As most of you might already know, visual content can really spruce up content and help it go viral.
With the demand for cost reductions, CLG calling for innovation in the public sector, ‘Big Society’, calls for more open government data and increasing restrictions on travel, the time is right to re-examine what social media offers local government.
I know this is a bit off-topic from government-related topics, but I feel I really wanted to share my future prediction for brick and mortar business when it comes to social media.
This blog post marks the release of LGEO Research 1st White Paper titled “Government-to-Citizen Communications: Utilising multiple digital channels effectively”.
So, tomorrow I’m releasing my 1st White Paper on how local government can communicate better with citizens using multiple channels on limited cost.
The first on the scene was the empowered patient. Patients are participating in online communities to share and discuss daily life struggles to coping with rare diseases.
This blog post looks into those perceptions, both good and bad of why people want to resist or embrace social media within the medical e-learning environment within the NHS.
The first on the scene was the empowered patient. Patients are participating in online communities to share and discuss daily life struggles to coping with rare diseases. Here I’ve compiled a list of inspirational web 2.0 and social media stuff by patients for patients.
This blog post includes some slides with examples of how Scotland is using social media to engage with citizens.
This blog post lists down some examples of how medical practitioners can use social media. Check out the weblinks to see it in practice. Hopefully these examples will inspire people in government to use social media in more creative and effective ways.
This blog post highlights some of the useful and valuable social media and web 2.0 examples in e-learning for health informatics from around the world. Hope these examples will help inform the health community of interesting and effective e-learning practices out there.
I love it when I can find inspiring speakers and stories to inspire and encourage social media adoption in all aspects of our lives.
I recently attended the Personal Democracy Forum Europe 09 in Barcelona and sat in a talk with one of our beloved Tom Watson to find what he and other speakers had to say about how the internet is changing politics.
So its been a been a while since LocalGovCamp Lincoln but its never too late to share all those juicy details for all your reading and viewing
It was certainly interesting to learn that the Better Connected report will also be reporting on local government social media usage in next year’s report!
Thank you for all your pics! I compiled all the pics that were clear. Sorry if yours didn’t make it, it was only because it was hard to see what was written.
Beth Kanter is a trainer, blogger, and consultant to nonprofits and individuals in effective use of social media.
I’ve finally got around to doing what I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. I’m opening up all the research data I have to local councils to own and update as often as you like. I know I am unable to update this data on my own any longer, especially with the increased uptake of social media by UK Local Councils.
Looking at the possibilities of using social media for e-learning and collaborative working across UK local government.
So another week, there’s another event for LGEO Research to sink its teeth into! This time its the Socitm’s 2009 Conference: Re-inventing local public services – radical thinking, practical solutions.
The event organizers have also arranged for sign language interpreters to be at the event so if anyone who is deaf or disabled who wanted to attend, please be rest assured that this facility is available just for you at the event.
I interview Dave Briggs, a community evangelist. What is a community evangelist anyways?
Summary of my upcoming social media presentation. Any thoughts?
I’m going to be presenting this sometime in the near future. Thought I’d share my overview of the presentation with all my readers to get an insight into what you think. Any comments welcomed!
ScotWeb2 was certainly a different experience from any other unconference I’ve been to. Usually an unconference would consist of a big group but this event was quite an intimate one, which I believe worked towards their advantage.
This session will cover enterprise 2.0 explaining the theory and practical application in modern business. Providing employees with new age…
Researchers are sometimes quite hard to come by. They’re usually locked up in the library or room somewhere reading endless amounts of books and articles and once in a while pops out to do some field research.
So, its been a few days now since I attended the PSFBuzz Web 2.0 event in Manchester.The presenters covered a lot of topics relating to social media and web 2.0 strategies for local authorities.
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.
Today I’m going to blog a bit about an interesting event taking place in June. Some of you might have already heard of it. Its the ScotWeb2 event which you can start registering for here. You can find out more about this event from @alexstobart and follow the ScotWeb2 blog here.
Coventry City Council has recently unveiled its City Centre’s Masterplan to the local people of Coventry. This billion pound project achieved its Final Masterplan following a massive consultation exercise with local people.
As most of you might have noticed, the growth of local councils adopting the social media route is growing by the day. The momentum and awareness is growing slowly but surely.
This discussion paper from author Allison Fine explores the ways a new generation and new technologies are changing our civic landscape.
I found this presentation to be extremely useful in understanding why we need to change the way we communicate. For instance traditional top-down messaging no longer rules the day and organizations must adapt their messaging and empower their supporters to drive the message.
This post features the list of UK Local Councils on Youtube.
Here is a list of UK councillors on Twitter as of 17th April 2009
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.
While doing this research, I often remind myself not to get lost and blinded by the gleaming new opportunities offered by technology. Being someone who is possibly technology bias, sometimes its hard not to be.
I was recently thinking about how people use search engines/google to help solve their problems. Based on an interview with close to 50 people, I found that the only way that people tend to find information to solve a problem or find a solution online, came down to 3 references which are friends & family, online newspapers and most referred to is Google.
I thought it was only appropriate that since this is my first post, I’d share with you a glimpse of…