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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: July 2011
The revolution will not be comma separated
I had a fun day yesterday at the Civil Service Fast Stream conference, which was focusing on big society type stuff. I was running a session on open government, with a concentration on open data. As a bit of fun, … Continue reading
Posted in data, open government
Tagged civil service, fast stream, open data, open government
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The digital press office
One innovation in the way that local councils communicate is the developments of digital press offices, or newsrooms. There are two elements to these, I think. The first is having a digital savvy communications team, who get the growing importance … Continue reading
Social knowledge and learning at BT
I spoke at an Open University event last week on behalf on Learning Pool, discussing the role on communities in social learning and how they can help improve engagement. More on the specifics of my talk on the LP blog … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge and learning
Tagged bt, knowledge_management, learning, social-learning
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Electric wok syndrome
In an acerbic review of Google+, John Naughton explains electric wok syndrome, which is always worth having in the back of your mind: A spectre is haunting the technology industry. It is called “electric wok syndrome” and it mainly afflicts … Continue reading
Quick update
Apologies for the lack of updates here. I’ve been very busy with work, and travelling about the place. Also been writing stuff for elsewhere, and it would appear I only have a finite number of words in my head at … Continue reading
