I was delighted when UK online centres decided to make their bid for the Digital Mentor fund from CLG, inspired by the community initiative to take a policy initiative by the scruff of the neck over at DigitalMentor.org.
Now the bids are in, all that those who are involved can do is sit and wait. In the meantime, though, Helen has provided us with her learning points from the process. I have summarised them below – to read the detail you need to visit the post, where you’ll also find a nice video taken by David Wilcox.
- Partnership is a much better way to do things
- It takes loads of time to develop ideas in this kind of forum
- Social media helped me to put aside prejudices and listen to all comments with an open mind and a receptiveness to learn
- It’s really hard to balance open debate and to provide structure for a constructive discussion
- Not everyone likes using social media to develop bids
- The journey’s been fun but arriving will be better
