Big Kudos to Ideal Government who are hosting Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO, the first blogging Permanent Secretary in the UK. Sir Bonar, perhaps stuck a little in a Civil Service mentality of talking to us, uses his first post Read more…
I’ve come across this lovely little research project from the Violence Research Group at Cardiff University. Basically, academics investigating youth crime involved some of the young offenders themselves, getting them interviewing the academics who study the phenomenon and film it. Read more…
David Cameron is often accused of being full of hot air and lacking real policies. All the more surprising that the majority of his speech to Conservative Councillors Association last week was devoted to the subject of data standards. He Read more…
The reason for me being at the symposium was to take part in the final session on Thursday. Tom Gaskin from NorfolkBlurb forced young people onto the agenda and was asked to organise a session on empowering young people. A Read more…
Friday morning was probably not the best time to present after a conference "networking evening". The first session I saw involved Paul Hilder from AVAAZ.org, Sara Ashton from Amnesty, Thomas Noirfalisse from Oxfam and Juan Gonzalez-Mellizo from the European Commission. Read more…
I went to barcamp and the online noise about it was deafening. I went to the Social Media CoP Big Day out and the blogging about it was swift and detailed. I went the 2006 International e-Participation & Local Democracy Read more…
You spend £1,000s on developing an advertising strategy, £100,000 on creating some TV ads, £1,000,000’s on advertising slots and some students from Poynton High create an homage on Facebook to "one of the greatest drama teacher’s" ever. For FREE. You Read more…
Over on the UKIE-dem mailing list and at Designing for a Civil Society, there has been discussion about the BBC relatively new plans to launch an Ultra-Local network of community sites and the closure of the BBC Action Network. Mick Read more…
School children in Wiltshire are to help older people in the county become more familiar with new technology. Shock horror. Some positive youth coverage in the media. Quick Plug: Tom Gaskin of NorfolkBlurb is leading a session at the Empowerment Read more…
Someone told the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham that YouTube is a good way to engage with people. Nobody told them not to use it as a way of distributing spin. This video just invites criticism because of the Read more…