Comments on: What do people want to know? http://davepress.net/2008/08/13/what-do-people-want-to-know/ Using the internet to make government more interesting Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:22:05 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bob ashley http://davepress.net/2008/08/13/what-do-people-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1408 bob ashley Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:18:27 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=629#comment-1408 Hi Dave, Thanks for soliciting ideas. I'm in the municipal government scene. I'm interested in how local government might democratize its affairs through social media. It seems to me that if we don't do anything in this direction we still yet establish a hierarchy, a ranking, a privilege of the status quo...that tired old, mainly ineffective venue of public opinion, the "Town Hall Meeting", or worse, the vote every 4 years or so. We have practically zero uptake of Web2.0 in Nova Scotia towns and rural municipalities. I think we're missing the social media boat. bob Hi Dave,

Thanks for soliciting ideas. I’m in the municipal government scene. I’m interested in how local government might democratize its affairs through social media.

It seems to me that if we don’t do anything in this direction we still yet establish a hierarchy, a ranking, a privilege of the status quo…that tired old, mainly ineffective venue of public opinion, the “Town Hall Meeting”, or worse, the vote every 4 years or so.

We have practically zero uptake of Web2.0 in Nova Scotia towns and rural municipalities. I think we’re missing the social media boat.

bob

]]> By: Mike Amos-Simpson http://davepress.net/2008/08/13/what-do-people-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1407 Mike Amos-Simpson Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:06:13 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=629#comment-1407 Hi Dave - I like the Commoncraft films for explaining stuff simply - what I think could be useful is something to back these up with how they can be put to use in workflows for different people/organisations - for example "Effective Tools for Youth Workers", "Effective Tools for Non Profit Project Managers" etc. Tools isn't the best word but what I mean is demonstrations of how people in different roles could use the different things available as 'real life' examples. http://www.commoncraft.com/ (link) Hi Dave – I like the Commoncraft films for explaining stuff simply – what I think could be useful is something to back these up with how they can be put to use in workflows for different people/organisations – for example “Effective Tools for Youth Workers”, “Effective Tools for Non Profit Project Managers” etc.

Tools isn’t the best word but what I mean is demonstrations of how people in different roles could use the different things available as ‘real life’ examples.

http://www.commoncraft.com/ (link)

]]> By: Carl Haggerty http://davepress.net/2008/08/13/what-do-people-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-1405 Carl Haggerty Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:17:17 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=629#comment-1405 Hi Dave, I think my organisation is interested in social media but doesn't want to be driven by the technology products themselves and wants to understand the functions so that they can better understand what additional things they think it could be used for. An example being twitter, a number of people like it but are concerned by the sometimes lack of performance and lateness in updates being applied. This might cause some people to be put off and reaffirm their concerns that free stuff is rubbish...However i am keen to explore possible in-house versions or something similar. Hope this makes sense. Carl Hi Dave,

I think my organisation is interested in social media but doesn’t want to be driven by the technology products themselves and wants to understand the functions so that they can better understand what additional things they think it could be used for.

An example being twitter, a number of people like it but are concerned by the sometimes lack of performance and lateness in updates being applied. This might cause some people to be put off and reaffirm their concerns that free stuff is rubbish…However i am keen to explore possible in-house versions or something similar.

Hope this makes sense. Carl

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