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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Bookmarks for December 9th through December 11th
Awesomeness off of the internet for December 9th to December 11th: blip.tv (since 2005) – Great videos from the recent online O'Reilly Government 2.0 shindig. Enterprise Wiki Software Guide – Tools and Capabilities | Future Changes – "Looking for a … Continue reading
The biggest mistake councils made with online engagement
It’s frequently costly. It almost always achieves little. It lets people tick the “use the internet to engage with the public” box without actually achieving much. I am, of course, talking about webcasting council meetings. The idea has honourable roots. … Continue reading
Posted in E-Democracy, Guest post
Tagged democracy, engagement, government, local government, localgov, localgovweb, Video, webcasting
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Bookmarks for December 6th through December 8th
Awesomeness off of the internet for December 6th to December 8th: Local Government Data – The Government will encourage local government to release local public data and make it free for reuse, and establish an open-platform local data exchange. Assistly … Continue reading
Lee Bryant on leadership
I keep returning to this post by Headshift’s Lee Bryant, on leadership in the networked society. It’s big, meaty and good. My starting point was the myth that leadership is somehow less important in new, networked organisations. Not so. If … Continue reading
