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Exploring how people can use social technology for social, economic and environmental benefit.

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Building Bridges

Posted by Aidan Kelly on November 20, 2009 at 5:06pm

Is there a good business model that enhances social collaboration in a selfless way?

Posted by Traidmark.org on November 20, 2009 at 9:48am

Community Voices research pubished

Posted by Aidan Kelly on November 9, 2009 at 11:43am

Digital engagement governance – a dichotomy between hyperlocal or partnership managed

Posted by Michele Ide-Smith on November 1, 2009 at 2:23pm — 10 Comments

Community Voices at Digital Engagement Event: Reflections on the Conversation

Posted by Amy Sample Ward on October 30, 2009 at 11:21am — 2 Comments

Latest Activity

Aidan Kelly added a blog post

Building Bridges

After a few weeks of relative silence, I thought I'd blog a short update on what's been happening in the background on Community Voices. Over the last few weeks I've been pouring through research papers, amongst other things, including our own Co...

11 hours ago

CountCulture added a discussion to the group Hyperlocal Alliance

OpenlyLocal Ning app now live (and in App Directory)

Just a shout out to those members using Ning as their hyperlocal software, the OpenlyLocal Ning application has just been approved and is now in the Ning Application Directory. This means you can now have key council info, including forthcoming m...

14 hours ago

Traidmark.org added a blog post

Is there a good business model that enhances social collaboration in a selfless way?

http://www.traidmark.org is one way. are there others?

18 hours ago

Ingrid Koehler commented on Ingrid Koehler's group 'Linked and open data'

Ooops Gesche, mind to keyboard mess-up re. OS vs ONS.

yesterday

Paul Davidson replied to Ingrid Koehler's discussion 'LGA Group on Open and Linked Data' in the group Linked and open data

Well that is encouraging. This could be the start of a Local Government Data Cloud that is complete enough to link data to. However, I did not see this coming, and myself and other Local Government stakeholders would have wanted to have had an op...

yesterday

CountCulture replied to Ingrid Koehler's discussion 'LGA Group on Open and Linked Data' in the group Linked and open data

Some of the infrastructure for this is being put in place. For example LAs can now be referenced using the ONS derived URI http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority/[SNAC_ID], and this has now also been linked to from the OpenlyLocal.com li...

on Wednesday

Lesley Thomson Taking the evening to update all my networks...

on Wednesday

Gesche Schmid commented on Ingrid Koehler's group 'Linked and open data'

Ingrid, it is not ONS but OS who has been asked by government to free up midscale, boundary line and postcode area boundary data as part of the making public data public campaign. The link to the CLG announcement is here http://www.communities.gov...

on Wednesday

Gary Colet commented on Ingrid Koehler's group 'Linked and open data'

Reading between the lines of the announcement http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/media/news/2009/nov2009/mappingfuture.html OS are not at all happy about losing a potential revenue stream, hence the comment about central Gov funding this (f...

on Wednesday

Ingrid Koehler commented on Ingrid Koehler's group 'Linked and open data'

Good news about ONS offering free access to online maps, isn't it? Or am I missing a devil in the detail.

on Wednesday

David Wilcox commented on David Wilcox's blog post 'How about joining up with the European Media Coaches?'

Sarah Hartley (Guardian Local) might be interested in the light of this, and also John Popham who organised Leeds social media surgery

on Wednesday

James Hatts replied to Philip John's discussion 'Getting serious about hyperlocal: Legal issues' in the group Hyperlocal Alliance

Yes, we'd certainly want to participate in any such shared legal advice system. A great idea.

on Wednesday

Philip John added a discussion to the group Hyperlocal Alliance

Getting serious about hyperlocal: Legal issues

As a follow on from my blog post about legal issues for hyperlocals I wanted to get a discussion going. In the post I ask; "All very good talking about it but what are we going to do? Well, I’m not exactly sure how to go about it. We’ve got to ge...

on Wednesday

Jes Høyer-Mikkelsen Interest in PR 2.0, Social Media and online marketing.

on Wednesday

Conrad Taylor added a discussion to the group Networking Babel

Software which works well multilingually

Following on from my publication (for the BarCamp Frica UK event in London on 7 November 2009) of a brief paper about fonts and software supporting multilingual publishing and information-sharing, I wonder if we could pool some more information al...

on Wednesday

David Wilcox added 3 notes

on Tuesday

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Social by Social book and other resources

Read Social by Social the book online or download free here. See our local communities wiki for a who's who of UK national and regional programmes, and lots more resources. More here about this network.

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Local map 3 Replies

I set up this map some time ago for the Hyperlocal Allinace group on Linkedin, and have now started adding events to it. I'm realising it's a bit tricky to add everyone by geographic area, so if yo...

Started by clarewhite. Last reply by clarewhite Nov 17.

Time to try joining up traditional community organising with the new hyperlocal? 8 Replies

Is there scope for more joining up between the local community campaigners who gathered their strength through traditional organising in the last century, and those now using "hyperlocal" social me...

Tagged: civicsociety, civictrust, hyperlocal

Started by David Wilcox. Last reply by David Wilcox Nov 6.

Open Declaration on European Public Services

A group of citizens have launched an open collaborative effort to build an Open Declaration on European Public Services, which calls on European governments to embrace the values of transparency, p...

Tagged: participation

Started by Phil Green Nov 5.