Coming off a week of the Local by Social online conference, we rolled straight into the first Local by Social regional event. It wasn’t just hosted by Coventry council, it was hosted by the good people of Wood End – an estate in the North East of Coventry – its reputation described by its own [...]
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We’ve just finished five days and a weekend of the Local by Social online conference. There were 46 topics added during the conference, with an average of 26 responses. At the end of Day 5 we had over 1100 members (currently standing at 1122). So far, there have been 5,700 visits and over 34,000 page [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, socialmedia |
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OK, so it’s the last day of the Local by Social online conference. And we’re in no way down to the dregs. We’ve still got some great stuff for you lined up today. Yesterday we had some really stimulating discussions on social media for emergency planning and resilience – adding another layer to the way [...]
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The first day of the conference was amazing, there were over 8,500 page views in the conference yesterday and there are now close to 900 delegates. Fantastic. You can join the conference by following this link: Local by Social online conference. You’ll need to be registered at www.communities.idea.gov.uk, but it’s free and quick. The conference [...]
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The Local by Social online conference opens today! We’ve got a great line up of speakers and perhaps an even better line up of participants – there are nearly 800 of you! This is stacking up to be the biggest local government social media and open data event ever. On tap today Wednesday 3 November [...]
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The Local by Social online conference is kicking off tomorrow and I’m really excited. We have around 30 speakers and currently over 700 delegates and counting. I think this probably makes this the biggest event on social media and open data in local government ever, anywhere. So go ahead and sign-in and take a look [...]
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Social media is often called a connective technology. Used well it has the ability to reduce costs and effort for organising people and ideas. Much of the work around social media and local government has (rightly) been about how it can be used to support better connections between citizens and local public services, the people [...]
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The Local by Social online conference is showcasing a range of digital innovators in local public services. Social media: Citizen and council strand has a range of brilliant speakers covering the breadth of how social media is being used to innovate and improve local public services and engage citizens more broadly and deeply. And this [...]
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I once attended a conference on community engagement that was distinctly unengaging. Held in the windowless basement of a central London hotel, I was shocked by the dreariness of it all. The people on either side of me at the table were more interesting than all of the speakers, bar one. It wasn’t that some [...]
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Yesterday, I closed the comments and added a post to the LG Transparency guides to publishing spend and salaries data openly. We took a different approach to consultation than we usually do – normally we email people documents, use a reference group or if we’re being really open we consult through a community of practice [...]
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