Posts belonging to Category tech geekery
Posted by IngridK on April 6, 2011
A week is a long time in social media. A year is an eternity. Yet I still pretty much stand by what I wrote in Connected Councillors: a guide to using social media to support local leadership, which was published just over a year ago. So why do it over again? Well… things have changed [...]
Categories: community engagement, councillors, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: 21stcc, cllrsocmed, councillors, gov2.0, guidance, lbys, lgovsm, local by social, local government, social media | 
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Posted by IngridK on March 24, 2011
I can’t believe it – we’ve finished our series of four regional Local by Social events. They were a blast. Really good fun. Super innovative and productive. We did two with a neighbourhood focus, one with data and app focus and the final one in Blackburn with a transparency and engagement focus. But they were [...]
Categories: Local by social, tech geekery |
Tags: engagement, innovation, lbys, local by social | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on March 11, 2011
Lots of councils are putting blanket bans on travel for their staff. This means no conferences, no travel to training, no learning opportunities. No nada. I can, in some ways, understand this. But in other ways, this means that at just the time when people need to be learning how to do things differently, really, [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on March 7, 2011
We’ve just finished up another Local by Social, this time for the North East. We were hosted by Sunderland council at Southwick Community Primary School. We had an amazing range of speakers. We had some really cool ideas developed by parents of kids at the school beforehand – and the event really moved some of [...]
Categories: innovation, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on February 22, 2011
The Big News Yesterday the Making a Difference With Data site launched at madwdata.org.uk . This is an exciting initiative which is helping practitioners, councillors and active citizens alike to publish and use data more effectively. It covers the local authority (transparency and democracy), education, health and social care, housing, roads and transport and police [...]
Categories: data, tech geekery, Uncategorized |
Tags: data, lbys, local by social, madwd, open data, transparency | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on January 31, 2011
Quick reflections on Local by Social apps for communities
Categories: tech geekery |
Tags: Bristol, data, lbys, LGID, local by social, local government, localgov, open data | 3 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 24, 2011
It’s online community manager appreciation day..
Categories: tech geekery, Uncategorized |
Tags: community, facilitiation | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 23, 2011
Blogging for community – a session at UKGovCamp
Categories: tech geekery |
Tags: blogging, community, CoP, UKGC11 | 9 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 21, 2011
via plantdelights.com This one’s just for fun! I’ve spotted that Plant Delights has a new spring catalog cover that is just cracking good. If you like gardening and if you like social media…which I do. I’ve used Plant Delights before to buy gifts for my mom; they have an amazing collection of perennials. I have [...]
Categories: tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on January 17, 2011
Using online tools to turn protest into solution.
Categories: appeals and campaigns, current events commentary, socialmedia, tech geekery |
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