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Tag Archives: communications
Radical transparency in local government – what can you do?
Something like Wikileaks couldn’t happen in local government, could it? Well, it looks like something similar is kicking off in Lincolnshire, with the Watching Lincolnshire County Council blog. It’s a whistleblowing site, where disgruntled employees are sharing rumours, gossip and … Continue reading
Posted in Transparency
Tagged change, communications, local government, radical transparency, watching lcc, wikileaks
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Where does social media belong?
Well done Ingrid, whose post has caused a number of interesting discussions to kick off. One is around where social media activity belongs within an organisation. She writes (on her newish personal blog, which you really ought to subscribe to) … Continue reading
The future of comms in local government
The Local by Social online conference (various levels of sign-up required) is turning out to be a bit of a triumph. Yesterday saw some fascinating discussions about various elements of technology (mostly web) enabled change. Well done Ingrid (and team)! … Continue reading
The death of crowd control
James Gardner: The point, of course, is that if the central thinking is that communications are about crowd control, then organisations are really forcing the many-to-many communication outside their organisation. Although I don’t think we are about crowd control at the … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, EntGov
Tagged collaboration, communications, enterprise 2.0, innovation, internal comms
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Bookmarks for September 20th through October 1st
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Social intranets: Enterprises grapple with internal change – Great stuff on deploying social tech within big organisations. Open Government Licence – "You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information … Continue reading
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