Comments on: Going local

By: Engaging communities with social media | Idea Performance

Engaging communities with social media | Idea Performance — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:54:28 +0000

[...] I actually think there are tremendous opportunities here, possibly more so than in central government, because at the local level, there is already a connection between the people and the government organisation, even if it is just through the collection of council tax, or the picking up of refuse. Local government doesn’t necessarily need to develop common ground with the people it serves, because the locality already act as a common denominator. Councils have a real opportunity to help develop the use of social media in a grographical area, to take a lead, say, in the definition and promotion of common tags to use so that locally generated content can be easily found and shared. The local authority could act as a convener, helping to draw people together online, including individual bloggers/photo sharers/etc, the local press, community groups and so on. I wrote more about this here. [...]

By: Local community networks with Ning | DavePress

Local community networks with Ning | DavePress — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:47:40 +0000

[...] on people’s computers. It’s certainly made be reconsider some of the stuff in my plan for building local online communities [...]

By: a Concept for Devon Online - version 2 « Carl’s Notepad

a Concept for Devon Online - version 2 « Carl’s Notepad — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:49:07 +0000

[...] August 19, 2008 by carlhaggerty My previous post on this topic sparked a number of great conversations offline with colleagues as well as some pointers to other interesting posts, one by Dave Briggs. [...]

By: What is a ‘Digital Mentor’? | DavePress

What is a ‘Digital Mentor’? | DavePress — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:16:22 +0000

[...] the role, as fuzzily defined in the white paper, needs to be developed and broadened in scope. In an earlier blogpost, I wrote about a possible process for social media to be used to bring togther the various elements [...]

By: Going local update | DavePress

Going local update | DavePress — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:53:04 +0000

[...] I might post an update on my efforts at establishing a social media group in Kettering, Northants. Having been subscribed to various feeds searching for Kettering based [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:11:22 +0000

@alex – Cambridge is about 40 minutes drive away so not too bad. I should imagine there is plenty of social media action going on there – maybe a good idea. I worry though that it would have the same result as the Brum bloggers thing, as I might not feel like I belong there either…

By: links for 2008-04-16

links for 2008-04-16 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:41:30 +0000

[...] Going local | DavePress Fantastic post on requirements for starting geographically bounded online communities. (tags: localauthority local place) [...]

By: alex

alex — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:36:59 +0000

dave
far be it for me to doubt kettering’s contribution to web 2.0 ( although they do make (t)weetabix there , don’t they ? ), I would go down the road to cambridge
http://paulcanning.blogspot.com/2008/04/feedburner-log-in.html

how far is it ? It strikes me there would be some talent there in the blogging world to match your own

By: Civicsurf in action | DavePress

Civicsurf in action | DavePress — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:32:40 +0000

[...] I wonder how well a blogging councillor like Tony would fit in with a local social media community like I described this morning? [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:13:02 +0000

The offline meets are pretty important for the Brum group, I think – there tends to be a lot of activity after each meeting! Almost like f2f meetings inspire ways of connecting online…

I agree with you about difference between on and offline personality. I feel much more confident online, and Dave Briggs the blogger is better at putting his ideas forward than Dave Briggs the bloke.

I think there is a considerable amount of potential in local groups organising themselves around social media. Think BBC closure of action networks, what fills the gap, Clay Shirky…