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A Manifesto for Online Communities - and digital inclusion (1999)

Posted by David Wilcox on March 9, 2010 at 10:00pm

social by social, public by social...

Posted by Anna Piela on March 9, 2010 at 1:40pm

Apps for Good: smartphones solving social problems

Posted by David Wilcox on March 7, 2010 at 6:56pm

A digital engagement framework adapted for local government

Posted by Michele Ide-Smith on February 9, 2010 at 7:00am — 2 Comments

Some information about the Knowledge Hub.

Posted by Stephen Dale on February 4, 2010 at 4:34pm

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Liz Coll added 2 discussions to the group Digital public services

yesterday

James Munro replied to Liz Coll's discussion 'In digital public services, are there certain things that only central government can and should be doing?' in the group Digital public services

Good questions! And note that there are two quite different questions here: are there things that only central govt can do? And are there things that only central govt should do? I'd take the liberty of adding a third: are there things that central…

yesterday

David Wilcox added a blog post

A Manifesto for Online Communities - and digital inclusion (1999)

While looking at an old site I set up back in the 1990s I came across A manifesto for online communities, written by a group of us back in 1999, and published by the BBC as part of its Webwise campaign. It's a sort of early unofficial digital inclus…

yesterday

Anna Piela added a blog post

social by social, public by social...

Public mission and social media. How does the digitalisation of the media landscape affect the public mission of the media (information, education, entertainment) ? How to public institutions extend their services using new media? Is it easier to be…

on Tuesday

Anna Piela commented on Anna Piela's event 'Public service media in the digital age'

everyone is welcome to attend this free event!

on Monday

Anna Piela added an event

Public service media in the digital age at University of Westminster

March 25, 2010 from 10am to 5pm

Register for the event: http://publicservicemediaindigitalage.eventbrite.com Event flier How does the traditional ‘public service’ mission translate into the online, interactive, user-engaged media of today? How should professionals and organisation…

on Monday

David Wilcox added a discussion to the group Digital public services

The Naked Council: designing local services from scratch

One of the highlights of Localgovcamp last week was a session from Anthony Zacharzewski of The Democratic Society, on the Naked Council. In this preview chat Anthony hastened to explain that no nudity would be involved: rather he wanted to start…

on Sunday

David Wilcox added a blog post

Apps for Good: smartphones solving social problems

I've just posted this over on socialreporter, and thought it might be of interest because it updates the work Iris Lapinski reported earlier. Congratulations to Iris and all at CDI for securing funding from Dell and putting together such an innovati…

on Sunday

Lauren Ivory added a discussion to the group Digital public services

Would you like to attend? 10 additional tickets available!

10 days to go: We direct gov: putting consumers at the heart of digital public services Consumer Focus is inviting a range of innovators, public service designers, providers and consumer representatives to a participant led workshop on the 15th Ma…

on Friday

Noel Hatch replied to Lauren Ivory's discussion 'Programme for Workshop- comments and suggestions welcome!' in the group Digital public services

Curious to know what you mean by stress-testing (especially just after lunch) ;)

March 2

Lauren Ivory added a discussion to the group Digital public services

Programme for Workshop- comments and suggestions welcome!

Workshop: 15th March – Agenda 9.30-10 Arrivals & coffee 10.15-11 The customers’ place in service design – Reviewing the evidence to date: content from the online document itself; the online consultation responses to it, and from additional onli…

March 2

James Munro replied to James Munro's discussion 'You say consumer, I say citizen' in the group Digital public services

Really appreciating these thoughtful comments - and enjoying Stefan's "social media circularity" too (nothing wrong with that!). I'm particularly struck by Liz Coll's "long standing consumer principles", which seems highly desirable - and they clear…

February 26

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Why edemocracy didn't take off ... and what will? 4 Replies

I think the market never organised itself around eDemocracy - perhaps because it just wasn't something that people could relate to. Social media is different - its owned by citizens and as a result i…

Tagged: Engagement, Citizen, Democratic, Media, Social

Started by Amelia Nicholas. Last reply by Steven Clift Feb 11.

Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice 12 Replies

Hi everyone, happy new year to you all. As Ingrid mentioned this week, I'm writing a short pamphlet for IDeA and NESTA explaining the practical benefits of social media for councils and their partne…

Tagged: nesta, idea, social, by, democracy

Started by Andy Gibson. Last reply by Steven Clift Feb 11.

Is Climate Change The Reason that Local Authorities will Embrace Social Media? 4 Replies

Often, when I am standing in the kitchen sorting my cans from my bottles from my newspapers (or more likely, watching my partner do this) I marvel at just how effective the council has been in changi…

Tagged: bristol, digital, green

Started by Stephen Hilton. Last reply by David Wilcox Jan 10.