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Time to try joining up traditional community organising with the new hyperlocal?
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Collaboration workshops in the autumn
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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…
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…
Thanks David - that would be great although I'm actually there reporting back the initial findings on 16th March. But this will only be version 1 so anything that comes out of 15th will still be very welcome!
thanks Dom - maybe we could tweak the March 15 workshop to tie in more closely. Lauren?
Hi all
I just wanted to point you at a piece of work we are leading with Harvard Kennedy School looking at the future of e-enabled public service delivery.
All ideas welcome - seems v relevant to your work here.
Thanks
Dom
We are currently working on the structure of the workshop for specialists on March 15, and identifying topics for discussion there and online. Here's our first list. Do please add others, and then we will see how to take discussion forward.
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Exploring how to ensure that the consumer interest is at the heart of digital public services design and delivery
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Here's some first questions and answers about the Digital Public Services project being developed by Consumer Focus. The project home is here.
What is the aim of the project?
We aim to explore how to ensure that the consumer interest is placed at t…
During the KMUK 2010 event on June 15/16 2010 the Social by Social team will run a Virtual Workshop on how social media can add value to knowledge management strategies. More details nearer the time.
Thanks Cathy - that's great. Any other examples welcome, of course
@dominiccampbell commented via Twitter - I think reflecting other people's views at ukgovcamp ... that broad statements on user involvement aren't much use, because services, situations and users are very different.
If we can't "unpack" real servi…
I've just posted Making social reporting an OpenBusiness , explaining how I'm using reporting in one of the projects on this site. It may give some clues on how social reporters can make a living beyond event reporting.
I've just posted Making social reporting an OpenBusiness, explaining how I'm using social reporting in this project.
I've just blogged an item around the videos I shot on Saturday, pulling out the key issues as I heard them. We'll now be discussing with Consumer Focus how to play these and other points into a workshop in about a month's time. Do they ring true for…
The GovCamp event on Saturday was a terrific opportunity to ask the assembled tech and policy experts, innovators and creative disruptors, how they thought we might get more user involvement in the development of digital public services to improve q…
Focussing further on the issue of the architecture of choice ... Paul Evans has just posted a challenging piece: "A way of involving the 'hard-to-reach' groups and the expenser of the 'hard-to-avoids'"
"Via Mick Phythian, I’ve just seen this (short…
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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 innovative project.
Young people looking for jobs and new skills ... community problems needing inno… Continue
Young people looking for jobs and new skills ... community problems needing inno… Continue
Posted on March 7, 2010 at 6:56pm —
The tough issues in user involvement
The GovCamp event on Saturday was a terrific opportunity to ask the assembled tech and policy experts, innovators and creative disruptors, how they thought we might get more user involvement in the development of digital public services to improve quality, and/or save money. It's a project we are working on for Consumer Focus, as… Continue
Posted on January 25, 2010 at 2:52pm — 2 Comments
Developing better digital public services through user involvement
Following a critical review of Directgov - the Government's central online portal - the official consumer champion Consumer Focus promised a campaign to ensure that users of digital public services get a better experience in future.
What's needed to achieve this, Consumer Focus believes, is a stronger user perspective on digital service delivery from the very start.
Consumer Focu… Continue
What's needed to achieve this, Consumer Focus believes, is a stronger user perspective on digital service delivery from the very start.
Consumer Focu… Continue
Posted on January 14, 2010 at 11:48am — 1 Comment
Social media for public services: how about an Open Innovation Exchange?
I posted this first at Socialreporter.com. If you think it's a good idea (or not), please add a comment.
The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the name - that councils should use a vari… Continue
The Crowdsourced Council event earlier this week was for me interesting at three levels. First for the idea expressed in the name - that councils should use a vari… Continue
Posted on November 25, 2009 at 11:33am — 3 Comments
How about joining up with the European Media Coaches?
I spent a few days last week at a European conference on media literacy, at the invitation of Ed Klute who runs the excellent trans-European Media Coaches network. I came away thinking there could be really useful connections with local progammes over here, including Talk About Local and… Continue
Posted on October 25, 2009 at 6:04pm — 5 Comments
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- At 12:39am on February 8, 2010,
Kristina Glushkova said…
- Hi David, thanks - very much looking forward to exploring and being part of the community. I'm disappearing to India for a few weeks shortly but will engage more actively once I'm back.
All the best,
Kristina
- At 10:07am on January 31, 2010,
Tracey Todhunter said…
- Hi David,
still finding my way around, but hopefully I'll start to join in more soon. You made some really helpful suggestions for places to start and I've looked up the Pathways to Participation work you mentioned. I'd like to see some discussion on how we can move online pledges and commitments into real action and I'm thinking how best to do this - there are such fantastic examples out there of communities "getting on" with what matters to them. I've put a short video from a local project in Cheshire on my page as a starting point. Thanks for making me welcome here.
- At 5:48pm on January 17, 2010,
Sangeet Bhullar said…
- Thanks David - just working my way around :)
- At 11:18pm on January 15, 2010,
David Wilcox said…
- Hi Matthew - suggest you post a bit about yourself on your bio/profile page. Then if you wish blog an item about a topic ... or just join in wherever interests you
- At 10:33pm on January 15, 2010,
Matthew Knight said… - Hey David
Thanks for inviting me to the group - where's the best place to introduce myself, so others can see why i'm here, or what i'm about? Or shall i just post that in my bio page? Looking forward to getting stuck into some discussion!
- At 1:47pm on January 15, 2010,
- Hi Tracey - that's a great topic we could cluster people around. Might even get Ed Mitchell across from Transition. Did you see this that he tweeted ... article on how difficult it is to get people both engaged and will to put the effort in to organising. http://www.energybulletin.net/51189
This literature on participation might be useful
http://pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk/2010/01/understanding-participation-a-literature-review/
Anyway - how can we get going? You would do a forum post, maybe on the lines of 10:10 aims to achieve this ... we done pledges ... now looking at community based action ... my experience with LCCN suggests ... want more ideas
I could then follow up, help activate.
That sort of thing?
- At 1:38pm on January 15, 2010,
- Thanks David, I'm looking for ways we can help get 10:10 moved on from an onine pledge campaign to real community based action to cut energy demand in all sectors (non profits, busness, homes etc). Anyone with ideas of how we can use social media and social networks to do this - I'm ready to listen!
Thanks
Tracey
(10:10 Cities Manager)
- At 11:31am on January 14, 2010,
Amelia Nicholas said… - Feel free to tweet away! Thank you.
- At 10:11am on January 14, 2010,
Amelia Nicholas said…
- This was exactly wehat we found ourselves talking about yesterday - 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 is far more dynamic - its done with, rather than done to them and people realise this is a huge distinction. Perhaps we were too early putting participation and democratic processes online - people needed to feel the conversations belonged to them before they wanted to use the web in a civic way because this suits an organic and self-managed nature. I think our energy now should be spent in trying to help people find the decision making processes which best fit the conversations people are already having.
- At 11:19am on January 13, 2010,
Mike MacAuley said… - Thanks David
I guess there is a dual interest for me. Firstly an interest in the content and the discussions which are always a great way to find out whats happening and share information but secondly (and more personally) to understand the influence of the medium, which is after all the message (yes a McLuhanite), on modes of communication. I reckon thats enough!
Mike
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