Articles from February 2010
Posted by IngridK on February 18, 2010
I’m a little slow in posting this, but I was prompted by a query on the Social Media Community of Practice asking for follow up from the LGIU’s Cllr 10 Conference. I spoke there with an excellent (and oddly in the world of social media) all female panel on Councillors and Social Media – Making [...]
Categories: councillors, socialmedia |
Tags: cllr10, conduct, councillors, lgiu, local government, localgov20, presentation, social media, social networking, standards | 
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Posted by IngridK on February 15, 2010
Today I spoke at a special edition of Measurement Camp hosted by FutureGov. It was at a bit of short notice and on the topic of performance management and social media. I’m afraid I was probably guilty of being a little bit arm wavy and a little bit thin on what councils could and should [...]
Categories: socialmedia |
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Posted by IngridK on February 11, 2010
Cool things from IDeA’s Community of Practice this week Efficiency Exchange Help shape the development of the Efficiency Exchange – a community dedicated to supporting efficiency knowledge and practice. New library resources: Links to efficiency in Community Safety case studies and resources. Sources of support for running efficiency projects well. Do you know of any [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice |
Tags: community safety, efficiency, Efficiency Exchange, effxchange, facebook, facilitation, local government, performance management, social media | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on February 10, 2010
Facebook is a great way of promoting your town’s events. The State of Tennessee has a great Facebook page to promote tourism. But this question on my hometown’s Facebook fan page is just a little too Jeff Foxworthy and immediately draws some close to the bone humor. Was this quite the effect they were hoping [...]
Categories: culture vulture, Remembrance of things past, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on February 9, 2010
I take a lot of pictures and half way decent ones get uploaded to my Flickr account. Sometimes I get requests to use these photos. It’s tempting to think that I could charge for the use of my pictures. But truthfully, although sometimes I take some great pictures, I’m not consistently good enough and I’m [...]
Categories: musings, photo, tech geekery |
Tags: photo | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on February 7, 2010
Remember The Jerk? And the scene when Nathan Johnson, the jerk, played by Steve Martin, gets his name in the phone book for the first time ever. “My name is in print. This is the kind of thing that makes people. Now things are really going to start happening to me.” I feel a little [...]
Categories: Uncategorized |
Tags: relentless self-promotion | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on February 6, 2010
We often visit Richmond Deer Park. And on days when cold and miserable weather has been predicted or experienced it seems that only the well-heeled go out walking. On days like that, I sometimes feel that we’ll be asked for our papers and be ejected from the park for being too trashy. Only Simon’s National [...]
Categories: Family fun |
Tags: duck, photo, Richmond Park | 3 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on February 5, 2010
CoP Shop Interesting things I’ve seen around the IDeA’s Communities of Practice. You need to be signed in first to www.communities.idea.gov.uk (anyone can register on the site) and I almost always link to public communities which anyone can join. Freedom to Lead: Policy and Performance CoP Discussion around the new LGA Group discussion paper Freedom [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice |
Tags: blogging, efficiency, empowerment, engagement, local government, social media | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on February 4, 2010
This month I started collecting examples of local government using social media using a really easy blogging service called Posterous (I’ve bogged about using it here.) I wasn’t sure if would keep it up, but I have so far and it’s been relatively easy to post an average of an example a day so far. [...]
Categories: socialmedia |
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Posted by IngridK on February 4, 2010
The other day I saw a fox nosing around our back door with his snout uncomfortably close to our kitty door. I wasn’t sure if he could actually get through or not – but I was slightly worried. Clearly he could smell our cat food. For my American readers, urban foxes are not an uncommon [...]
Categories: musings |
Tags: cat, fox, garden | 2 Comments »
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