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Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  Who’s coming to the Birmingham Social Media Surgery, BAD08

I thought is was time to take stock, not least to ensure sufficient tea and coffee for the social media surgery which us Birmingham bloggy folk are organising (with BVSC ) to support voluntary and community groups in the city on Blog Action Day . If you want to know how social media...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  Blog Action Day in Birmingham - a social media surgery for voluntary orgs.

Over here Jon Bounds has reminded us of our collective Birmingham blogger wish to mark Blog Action day next week in some shared way.  When Tom Watson asked us about this a while back there was plenty of enthusiastic muttering. The theme for blog action day 2008 is poverty,...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008

  This is a no brainer for the UK.

Free Debates is an important democratic movement. They are demanding that a condition of a network getting to screen presidential debates is that they make the material available with open source/creative commons licensing, so it can be rehashed and mashed etc. It is a great idea...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Aug 24, 2008

  CarrotMob or Save the environment by drinking beer.

There are different ways to tackle climate change. In the last month I’ve written about the focussed and globally ambitious cquestrate . Now recent Birmingham Blogger Jonathan Melhuish (and also here ) who’s relocated to London tells me you can also do it by drinking beer. ...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason
Posted On:  Aug 5, 2008

  Social movements 2.0

flickr photo courtesy of racoles The jury is still out on the potential that social media has to facilitate social change. I would argue its widespread prevalence is a major shift in itself at least in person-to-person interaction. I wondered what the world would look like if all of...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 28, 2008

  Crime Mapping from the British Government based on a West Midlands example

Tom Watson , William Perrin and the Power of Information taskforce shows off some mock ups for crime mapping by neighbourhood and the whole social media story makes it onto the Telegraph’s front page with a couple of subsidiary articles – including one mentioning West Midlands...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008

  Communities in Control: real people, real media.

Empowered people tend to be good at conversation, understand their place in networks, have experience of how networks help get things done. So it is very good news that the new Government Empowerment White Paper acknowledges that social media (the conversational web) will play a part in...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 8, 2008

  The Charity Commission Responds to Education and Blogging.

A month ago I asked if your blog helped you learn . There were dozens of responses both here and on the Bad Science blog – mostly from people who keep personal or professional blogs which help them learn. (Thank you) This was all in reply to the Charity Commission using blogging...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 26, 2008

  Community Docking

When I speak to council officers and civil servants about community engagement the conversation often conjures up mental images of docking space stations. The officers are sincerely trying to picture interesting ways to approach the community, connect with it, create an airlock where they...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 14, 2008

  Is the British Government planning a new department of Digital Cleaners?

According to the FT the Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, thinks he may be able to not just control product placement in TV programmes but also on the web!. To quote from Neville Hobson’s blog post (nice spot Neville) Andy Burnham, culture secretary, said the government had an...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 16, 2008

  Journalism from the UK Parliament Twitter Stream

If you modestly define journalism as telling people what they need to know when they need to know it I think the various British Government twitter streams are getting into the swing of that. This on David Davis and his resignation as an MP from UKParliament (which uses its biog to...... [view]

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