Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 18, 2008	Communities of Practice for the Third Sector.
Steve Dale is pleased to report that the Office of the Third sector is to create online Communities of Practice to help Local Government and the Third Sector work together. To support local authorities and their partners, OTS and IDeA will be establishing an on-line Community of Practice...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 1, 2008	Video as evidence in community campaigning.
At first I thought this was a bit too long but then realised it has a specific purpose. As the blurb says: “A short film produced for the Edgbaston Constituency on the subject of Post Office closures in the community. The film was designed to be used as supporting evidence and...... [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	Facebook new design.
I like it . A lot. It puts our content and our relationships first. Can the design push the publicity desires of the app makers into the background without leaving them disillusioned? We’ll see. ... [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 21, 2008	Cquestrate: Can we crowdsource a carbon solution.
Cquestrate Intro Video from cquestrate on Vimeo . Last week I met Tim Kruger . He’d asked me to do a little bit of work on a very bold plan that he hatched today. Cquestrate is an organisation and a website which plans to crowdsource technical solutions to the huge...... [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:  Jul 2, 2008	Government websites need pavements
A simple summary from Steven L Clift about key ingredients for government websites if they are to help strengthen democracy: The typical e-government experience is like walking into a barren room with a small glass window, a singular experience to the exclusion of other community...... [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 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 12, 2008	COI response on Metadata and Social Media Consultations
On Tuesday I wrote this blog post about the Central Office of Information beginning a consultation on the use of social media and metadata in government. The “consultation” was first spotted by Emma Mulqueeny . This morning the press office e-mailed this response: “The...... [view]