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Tag Archives: community
Localism needs bespoke, not scale
David Wilcox does his usual excellent summarising and commenting job on the latest snafu involving BIG Lottery funding and the internet. It’s all about a grant of £1.89 million to the Media Trust, to fund the establishment of “connected news … Continue reading
Bookmarks for April 28th through May 18th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Local Government Graduate Gripes – "How would a networked, open, innovative, tech-enabled, social recruitment scheme for government work?" 10 things Alpha.gov.uk gets wrong (Part 1) | Helpful Technology – Nicely … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, agile, alphagov, Blogging, comms, communications, community, digital, football, govit, govweb, kindofdigital, localgovernment, microparticipation, networkedps, ngdp, opensource, politics, recuitment, socialmedia, websites
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Communities and ‘hyperactivism’
Excellent analysis and writing from Tessy Britton in reaction to the recent disturbances in Bristol: This is the real landscape into which the Localism Bill will descend. There seems to have been some dramatic shift recently from ‘government knows best’ … Continue reading
Bookmarks for January 27th through February 19th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Big Society – if the price is right – Interesting views on Big Society from a blogging councillor within my local district. The impact of IT decisions on organizational culture … Continue reading
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Tagged bigsociety, cllrblogging, cloud, collaboration, community, culture, digitalcllr, futuregov, government, huddle, innovation, it, local, localgovernment, opendata, opengovernment, opensource, organiser, place, publicservices, socialmedia, strategy, ukgc11, ukgovcamp
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Bookmarks for December 30th through January 9th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Engagement advice – Mick reports on a good list of engagement tips via @govloop Our Society – "Our Society aims to connect people who are genuinely concerned to move power … Continue reading
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Tagged assange, bigsociety, Blogging, cloud, community, consultation, digitalengagement, digitalinclusion, engagement, guardian, innovation, learning, localgovernment, localisminaction, nalc, network, nickdavies, ning, oursociety, parishcouncils, skunkworks, socialmedia, tips, whitepaper, wikieaks
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