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A digital engagement framework adapted for local government

Posted by Michele Ide-Smith on February 9, 2010 at 7:00am

Some information about the Knowledge Hub.

Posted by Stephen Dale on February 4, 2010 at 4:34pm

Digital public services: join us for a workshop

Posted by Liz Coll on January 30, 2010 at 1:28pm

The tough issues in user involvement

Posted by David Wilcox on January 25, 2010 at 2:52pm — 2 Comments

The Social Civic Nudge

Posted by Kirsty Russell on January 25, 2010 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

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Andy Gibson replied to Andy Gibson's discussion 'Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice'

Thanks Hugh. Have you got any tangible figures that relate to NIs 1-4 then, or is it more about qualitative progress in these areas? In fact, any general thoughts on how to measure impact for these tools would be great, evaluation is a bit of a dark…

11 hours ago

Hugh replied to Andy Gibson's discussion 'Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice'

Excuse the hiatus. Harringay Online is a project you could cite for impact on National Indicators 1 - 4 and some evidence that it's beginning to work for co-production. It may also be worth your mentioning the study that Networked Neighbourhoods ar…

12 hours ago

David Wilcox added a group

KMUK2010

During the KMUK 2010 event on June 15/16 2010 the Social by Social team will run a Virtual Workshop on how social media can add value to knowledge management strategies. More details nearer the time.

12 hours ago

Michele Ide-Smith added a blog post

A digital engagement framework adapted for local government

I've been doing a bit of research into citizen engagement models for my MSc research and started to think about how these models relate to digital engagement. I looked at various models and frameworks and combined them to help me conceptualise digit…

16 hours ago

Stephen Dale added a blog post

Some information about the Knowledge Hub.

This hasn't been widely advertised yet, but I put some information about the Knowledge Hub on a page which will eventually be the actual link to the beast itself - http://www.local.gov.uk/knowledgehub I should add that the live product may not be c…

on Thursday

Aidan Kelly commented on Aidan Kelly's blog post 'Community Voices research pubished'

Hi Cathy, thanks for the message and apologies for the slow response, I have been away on holiday the past week. Research report is available here Thank you for your support and if you have further questions please do contact me. Thanks Aidan

February 3

Lauren Ivory added a discussion to the group Digital public services

Digital Public Services- A Workshop

Consumer Focus are holding a workshop to develop on their paper 'does Directgov deliver?' Liz Coll of Consumer Focus raised some really interesting points in her recent blog post on the subject of user involvement and how we can start to open up dis…

February 2

Matthew Knight replied to Ingrid Koehler's discussion 'RFQ for corporate blogging template' in the group Knowledge Hub

Hey Ingrid Did you get many responses to this? I'm interested in whether your requirements might be able to be delivered by some of the open source existing templates which are available, rather than spending on custom builds (as the gartner exampl…

January 31

Andy Gibson replied to Andy Gibson's discussion 'Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice'

Thanks Geoff - nice to hear from you. There's a lot of great stuff happening in Birmingham at the moment. I wondered if you could say something about how the Newsroom and other services have helped you deliver the core work of the Council? The trou…

January 30

Liz Coll added a blog post

Digital public services: join us for a workshop

When thinking about digital public services, it’s easy to get bogged down in jargon like g-cloud, data mash-ups, web 2.0 (or is it 3.0 now), and the tantalising promise of having a ‘government on the web not of the web’. But this article I saw recen…

January 30

Cathy Aitchison commented on Aidan Kelly's blog post 'Community Voices research pubished'

Hi Aidan The research report appears to have gone from the CommunityVoices section of your website. Please can you send me a copy. Many thanks. By the way, the CMA list publicised the call for applications for grants for Community Voices today, so I…

January 29

Geoff Coleman replied to Andy Gibson's discussion 'Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice'

I work in the press office at Birmingham City Council and – with the help of Birmingham bloggers like Nick Booth - we’ve developed an online newsroom: www.birminghamnewsroom.com. Using wordpress, the site incorporates news headlines and releases, b…

January 29

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Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice 11 Replies

Hi everyone, happy new year to you all. As Ingrid mentioned this week, I'm writing a short pamphlet for IDeA and NESTA explaining the practical benefits of social media for councils and their partne…

Tagged: nesta, idea, social, by, democracy

Started by Andy Gibson. Last reply by Andy Gibson 11 hours ago.

Why edemocracy didn't take off ... and what will? 3 Replies

I think the market never organised itself around eDemocracy - perhaps because it just wasn't something that people could relate to. Social media is different - its owned by citizens and as a result i…

Tagged: Engagement, Citizen, Democratic, Media, Social

Started by Amelia Nicholas. Last reply by Amelia Nicholas Jan 20.

Is Climate Change The Reason that Local Authorities will Embrace Social Media? 4 Replies

Often, when I am standing in the kitchen sorting my cans from my bottles from my newspapers (or more likely, watching my partner do this) I marvel at just how effective the council has been in changi…

Tagged: bristol, digital, green

Started by Stephen Hilton. Last reply by David Wilcox Jan 10.