We’re hiring. We’re getting busier. With I’m a Scientist now rolling out to up to 500 schools this year we need to take on some help. We’re looking for an Admin Assistant (although you’ll get to choose a much funkier job title if you like – I’m a Defender of Read more
Thursday February 25th 2010 in London. Themes will be relevant to anyone working with local government in the social media/digital engagement space. We are aiming to create spaces for discussion and engagement, the sharing of experiences and creation of new ideas. Conversations are encouraged. We will have lots of parallel Read more
At least let’s stop using the word blog. I was in Diss, Norfolk last night as part of our www.norfolkhomepage.org.uk project. We had invited various community organisations to the library to learn about how they could get involved in the project. Primarily we showed people like Trevor that he could Read more
A month ago I wrote to Ken Clarke and John Thurso asking them to add their support to Tom Watson's correspondence with the Royal Mail over the Postcode Address File and providing access at a reasonable cost. Ken Clarke passed me on to Jonathan Djanogly, Shadow Spokesperson on the Post Read more
I’ve got an incredibly annoying friend called Geoff. If I am chatting to a new acqaintance at a party, he’ll come up behind me and say, “Soph’s Mum is the Sheriff of Nottingham, you know. If you’re not careful she’ll set her henchmen on you”. He, inexplicably, thinks this is Read more
Two and a half years ago, in May 2007, Sophia and I started looking at extending the I’m a Councillor event. We started a budget for I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here. We applied to the Wellcome Trust to fund a pilot. That kicked off in June 2008. Read more
Yesterday Sophia and I were at the Wellcome Trust presenting and being interviewed as part of our bid for 2 years funding on I'm a Scientist, Get me out of Here. The committee consisted of 6 very intelligent and experience people and they asked searching questions. It reminded me of Read more
I like the Wellcome Trust. They funded the I'm a Scientist pilot project. They funded the Debate Kits extension. But that's not why I like them. They invited Sophia and I to a Grantholders' Networking Day at their Euston Road HQ today. They have a lovely building. Light, airy, efficient, Read more
Number Ten Downing Street wrote a response to the petition “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to release the address and postal code data held within the Royal Mail’s PAF to the public.” In short they are saying, "not our problem, talk to Postcomm". Some feel this is a Read more
In the space of one week Twitter has flexed it muscles and had a significant effect that organisations public and private should wake up to. On Tuesday news came out of the injunction imposed upon the Guardian preventing them from publishing about a Parliamentary Question or even the fact they Read more