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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: June 2011
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Towards Effective Corporate Communications: Let Your Engineers do the Talking – For engineers, replace with any front line public sector worker! John Naughton on The Waste Land app – Great … Continue reading
Posted in Bookmarks
Tagged cloudculture, communications, culture, digital, he, highereducation, humanities, humor, ipad, leadership, opendata, poetry, startup, trust
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Digital activism opportunity
This looks like it’s a good opportunity for community groups to get some support in using digital tools, from the Young Foundation: By practically supporting six communities across England, we hope to understand more about the role that technology can … Continue reading
Posted in digital local
Tagged Communities, digital activism, funding, young foundation
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What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Civility in service | Public Strategist – "Civil servants should understand the constraints they accept as part of the job. They – and everybody else – should understand the limitations … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, biglottery, bigsociety, Communities, community, conduct, digitallocal, education, engagement, hyperlocal, ipad, policy, technology, twitter
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Keep (more than) your pants on
My previous post, giving a bit of advice for people wanting to be active online and yet stay out of trouble at work, missed one vital point: Don’t post pictures of your groin on the internet – especially if you’ve … Continue reading
Kind of Digital webchats
We’re going to start running occasional live webchats on the subject of online innovation on the Kind of Digital website. They’ll be simple affairs using the CoverItLive system and a bit of Twitter, and all the action will take place … Continue reading
