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A blog about technology, culture and the bits in between, with a focus on government and public services. Written and curated by Dave Briggs, founder and director of Kind of Digital. Find out more.
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Ideas, conversations and artists
As a follow up to my post on the UK .gov blogosphere, a small session was run at the recent govcamp on the state of blogging in the public sector in the UK. The discussion was an interesting one and … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged Blogging, community, discussion, government, government 2.0, ideas, social artist
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Moronic reporting of non issues
Take a look at this story, excitingly titled on the BBC News site “Council Twitter users face rebuke“. Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority’s standards committee for using social networking sites. The trouble is, no they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Twittering
Tagged BBC, culture, Journalism, local government, localgov, twitter
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Meeting with Microsoft
I had a very interesting hour today, chatting with James Brown and Dave Coplin at Microsoft. James works with the public sector all over the world, while Dave concentrates his effort on the UK. Dave also came along to last … Continue reading
Posted in Government 2.0, Government IT
Tagged culture, enterprise, enterprise 2.0, ict, it, microsoft, technology
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Misplaced self belief
Great quote, from Chris Collison: How often in an organisational situation do we get carried away with misplaced self-belief, a little (but not enough) knowledge, a little too much ego and an eager desire to just roll up our sleeves … Continue reading
