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Some information about the Knowledge Hub.

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

Digital public services: join us for a workshop

Posted by Liz Coll on January 30, 2010 at 1:28pm

The tough issues in user involvement

Posted by David Wilcox on January 25, 2010 at 2:52pm — 2 Comments

The Social Civic Nudge

Posted by Kirsty Russell on January 25, 2010 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Developing better digital public services through user involvement

Posted by David Wilcox on January 14, 2010 at 11:48am — 1 Comment

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Stephen Dale added a blog post

Some information about the Knowledge Hub.

This hasn't been widely advertised yet, but I put some information about the Knowledge Hub on a page which will eventually be the actual link to the beast itself - http://www.local.gov.uk/knowledgehub I should add that the live product may not be c…

on Thursday

Aidan Kelly commented on Aidan Kelly's blog post 'Community Voices research pubished'

Hi Cathy, thanks for the message and apologies for the slow response, I have been away on holiday the past week. Research report is available here Thank you for your support and if you have further questions please do contact me. Thanks Aidan

on Wednesday

Lauren Ivory added a discussion to the group Digital public services

Digital Public Services- A Workshop

Consumer Focus are holding a workshop to develop on their paper 'does Directgov deliver?' Liz Coll of Consumer Focus raised some really interesting points in her recent blog post on the subject of user involvement and how we can start to open up dis…

February 2

Matthew Knight replied to Ingrid Koehler's discussion 'RFQ for corporate blogging template' in the group Knowledge Hub

Hey Ingrid Did you get many responses to this? I'm interested in whether your requirements might be able to be delivered by some of the open source existing templates which are available, rather than spending on custom builds (as the gartner exampl…

January 31

Andy Gibson replied to Andy Gibson's discussion 'Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice'

Thanks Geoff - nice to hear from you. There's a lot of great stuff happening in Birmingham at the moment. I wondered if you could say something about how the Newsroom and other services have helped you deliver the core work of the Council? The trou…

January 30

Liz Coll added a blog post

Digital public services: join us for a workshop

When thinking about digital public services, it’s easy to get bogged down in jargon like g-cloud, data mash-ups, web 2.0 (or is it 3.0 now), and the tantalising promise of having a ‘government on the web not of the web’. But this article I saw recen…

January 30

Cathy Aitchison commented on Aidan Kelly's blog post 'Community Voices research pubished'

Hi Aidan The research report appears to have gone from the CommunityVoices section of your website. Please can you send me a copy. Many thanks. By the way, the CMA list publicised the call for applications for grants for Community Voices today, so I…

January 29

Geoff Coleman replied to Andy Gibson's discussion 'Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice'

I work in the press office at Birmingham City Council and – with the help of Birmingham bloggers like Nick Booth - we’ve developed an online newsroom: www.birminghamnewsroom.com. Using wordpress, the site incorporates news headlines and releases, b…

January 29

David Wilcox replied to Cathy Aitchison's discussion 'Community reporting example' in the group Social reporters

Thanks Cathy - that's great. Any other examples welcome, of course

January 26

Kirsty Russell commented on Kirsty Russell's blog post 'The Social Civic Nudge'

Hi Phil. I have fixed the link now so you can view the whole article. We are still in the middle of organising the event so haven't actually started inviting anyone to it yet, we are currently just looking for facilitators which is what you saw on t…

January 26

Phil Green commented on Kirsty Russell's blog post 'The Social Civic Nudge'

Hi Kirsty, followed the link, but there seemed to be something there about an event which if I understand correctly may be an invitation only event? If so, this doesn't seem to me very much like using whatever it is you're doing to increase levels o…

January 26

Cathy Aitchison added a discussion to the group Social reporters

Community reporting example

I hope this is the right way of doing this - it's maybe more of a notice than a discussion() Anyway, I just wanted to share this example of community reporting which I've been doing with Women's Design Service. See http://net.digitalengagement.org…

January 26

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Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice 9 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 Andy Gibson Jan 30.

Why edemocracy didn't take off ... and what will? 3 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 Amelia Nicholas Jan 20.

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.