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Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  You can plan Lozells

Rob Annable, a social media architect (oh yes) is about to launch a new project for public consultation on community plans: A few weeks ago, Birmingham City Council put out an invitation to tender for an extremely innovative and ambitious proposal that would allow the residents of Lozells to...... [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:  Sep 11, 2008

  Tooled Up For School.

This video appeared on the West Midlands Police Youtube site last week. It is part of the Tooled up for School campaign. As I write this has been seen a couple of hundred times.  It is a song produced for a dvd which is used in schools to discourage children from carrying...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008

  Seth Godin’s First Law of mass media:

Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter. Email used to be honest interactions between consenting adults. Facebook pages (and Wikipedia, too) were built by people, not staffs. Twits came from real people, and so did instant...... [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 30, 2008

  Review of the new Local Priorities web service from the Dept of Communities and Local Government

I do like the idea behind this new web service from the Department of Communities and Local Government which tells you what the Local Area Agreement is for improving the place you live in. Local Area Agreements are negotiated between a local council (plus the local strategic...... [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 18, 2008

  Civil Service Principals for Online Participation - Be Responsive.

After the suspension of a civil servant for blogging Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson has finally got some guidelines up to help civil servants join the online conversation. They are based on the civil service code and a big conversation which was encouraged by Tom on his blog and...... [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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