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- Webinar: Where next for engagement? | Involve
- 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue
- Research Paper: “Tweeting is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions” « INFOdocket
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- "Where next for community engagement?" - YouTube
- sharonodea: On @intranetizen I asked if smaller orgs really have better intranets. @roojwright crunches the numbers: http://t.co/yNnYGEGF #intranet
- Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die
- TimJHughes: 'Where next for engagement?' Recording of the 1st webinar in community engagement series. http://t.co/iceGkYmT #CreativeCouncils
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Getting community conversations going
Over the last year, one of the toughest but most rewarding areas of work I’ve been doing is training, mainly with central government communications staff, and often through the Government Communications Network. Our team of Simon Booth-Lucking, Dave Briggs and … Continue reading
Feet on the ground
There’s been a lot of buzz about the G-Cloud today and over the weekend, and rightly so. It’s a potentially exciting development, and a real achievement for Chris Chant and his team. Not only have they set out, aggressively in … Continue reading
The next step
In May last year, alpha.gov.uk emerged blinking into the limelight. It was the product of a true skunkworks operation – a few guys (and they were mainly guys) – tucked away on a disused floor of a government building in … Continue reading
The republic of UKGovcamp
Dan Slee’s excellent suggestion of a ’20 thoughts’ format for reflections on UKGovcamp seems to have caught on, so here’s mine – more about the format than the content, in many cases. That I think Dave Briggs and Lloyd Davis … Continue reading
Coming up with maturity model for digital in the public sector
Hands up who says they work in ‘new media’? Me neither. While we’re not quite in a digital by default world, this stuff has been around for a decade and a half. Even in the public sector. One topic I’d … Continue reading
Farewell @neillyneil
So he’s off. Neil Williams, head of digital at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills today swaps pinstripes for his dress-down trademark hoody and joins the growing team at GDS. To be fair, he’s been there on and off … Continue reading
The year of living helpfully
It’s been 18 months since I last walked the mean streets of Westminster as a civil servant. There are things I miss about the old lifestyle: having the scope to run with projects on the ‘inside’, being in the loop on … Continue reading
Day 25 #helpful24: 24 tools, tips and tricks for smart web people
This year I’ll be sharing some of my favourite tools and tutorials to help you do clever things on the web, one per day in the run up to Christmas. Continue reading
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Walk a mile in our sandals
I’ve written a piece for the Guardian’s Public Leaders Network on UKGovcamp, as part our plan to broaden the reach of UKGovcamp in 2012: Informal, social-media driven events like UKGovcamp and the recent WordUp Whitehall have an important role in bringing together SME suppliers, open source … Continue reading
Making WordPress accessible to AAA
At Simon’s recent WordUp Whitehall event, I presented on the process I went through on a project with BIS/DCMS to create a discussion platform for the eAccessibility Forum. The site went live yesterday, thanks to the sterling efforts of the … Continue reading
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