The sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed a little extra eye-candy today. This site now sports a bright yellow button that links through to the page showing how people can get involved in the Local Democracy Campaign. The aim is to get as many people displaying the button as possible. Read more…
It is a big couple of weeks for the LifeSwap project. What started as a small project to help Councillors understand a little more about the lives of the more vulnerable young people in their care is about to get a lot bigger. Yesterday we saw copies of an excellent Read more…
The Edge, "the newspaper on youth work and youth affairs for local authority elected members from The National Youth Agency", have published a very nice article (page 7) about LifeSwap. One correction is needed from the article – the next LifeSwap won’t be Mids-Beds at the end of June. It Read more…
The Russell Commission is moving on. Yesterday, the vwell funded charity recommended by Russell was launched. It is called v and their website is at www.wearev.com. It is a vnice website and vwell branded. At the moment the site is about providing information about the organisation and I’m sure over Read more…
Congratulations to Stephen Hilton from Bristol City Council consultation team who won BT Innovator of the Year in the Government Computing Awards. A Gallomanor project, CampaignCreator, seemed to feature as part of the reason for winning, but overall I imagine it’s Stephen’s attitude of "Do it until someone tells you Read more…
Last week I was invited to speak to a Citizenship Co-ordinators Network event in Bristol. It was held at a City Learning Centre at Brislington College and the facilities were superb and, judging by the number of students who tried to get into the computer room where we were meeting, Read more…