Connecting before, during and after the UK government barcamp

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Venue and date confirmed!

Confirmation has come in that the 2010 UK government barcamp will be taking place at Google HQ in Victoria, London. It will be held on Saturday 23rd of January, 2010. Tickets will be made available nearer the time, but you can register your interest and get advanced notice of how to get a ticket by filling in this form. Continue

Added by Dave Briggs on October 16, 2009 at 6:22pm — No Comments

Cranking up for UKGovCamp10 - #ukgc10

Hi all! It's nearly October 2009. If we are running another BarCamp in January 2010, we ought to start thinking about it. There isn't much detail at the moment, other than to say that sometime in Jan, we'll all get together in London on a Saturday to talk about government, data, internets, and other fun stuff. Here's what you can do:

Fill in the register of interest, so we know who wants to come,

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Added by Dave Briggs on September 27, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

New Media World

The social media revolution is influencing our world profoundly – not least in the conventional world of politics, broadcasting and journalism. 21st Century Network would like to invite you to join us at a meeting to discuss this in London on Tuesday July 7th between 6.30 and 8.30 pm You can find out more and register here ... The world of the media is changing as fast as everything else. A politician makes a speech igno… Continue

Added by Francis Sealey on June 6, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Help!! New Media for Youth Engagement

Hello I haven't posted here before so hi to all. My background is e-democracy, e-engagement and e-participation. PhD in 2001 looked at significance of new technology for democratic participation and community development. Worked previously at Napier Uni in Edinburgh on research to develop/assess e-Petitioning to the Scottish Parliament. Also worked on several other research projects related to policy and e-participation. Changed course slightly when came down to Lakes a few years ago to get rema… Continue

Added by Anna Malina on May 17, 2009 at 8:33am — No Comments

Update from councillors connected: the social media online conference Day 2

You'll need to be logged into www.communities.idea.gov.uk to follow these links Yesterday we had a lot of discussion about what it means to be local and providing a local view to people. We also had views from local politicians about using social media and how it helped to humanise their political persona and support informal dialogue with local people. And there was the beginning of some thinking around how councils can support local po… Continue

Added by Ingrid Koehler on April 7, 2009 at 3:50pm — No Comments

Web strategy

Hi, I´m trying to find examples of organizations that has post their web strategies online but not results so far. Could you provide any sugestions?? thanks Continue

Added by Agustín on April 1, 2009 at 2:58pm — 2 Comments

We20 and 21st Century Network ....

The G20 leaders meet in London on 2 April. This is a group of 20 world leaders - people together making plans that will affect our future. The G20 are tasked with reforming our failed economies and mapping out our future A number of we20 groups are now being formed across the globe. These are diverse groups of 20 citizens also together creating plans for our future. It is hopes that there will be mant we20 groups across the globe discussing what our leaders the G20 should do and then putting pr… Continue

Added by Francis Sealey on March 1, 2009 at 11:07am — No Comments

Blogpost + notes from BarCamp UKGovWeb 2009 on OKF blog

Blogpost and notes from BarCamp UKGovWeb 2009 on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog: BarCamp UKGovWeb 2009. Continue

Added by Jonathan Gray on February 11, 2009 at 9:25pm — No Comments

scotweb2 barcamp - for local government

I have been talking to Dave Briggs about trying to bring an event to Scotland Any takers from the north ? Continue

Added by alex stobart on February 6, 2009 at 5:41pm — 2 Comments

Teacamp tomorrow - time change

Please note that the teacamp planned for tomorrow at Cafe Zest in House of Fraser has been put back to start at 4pm rather than 2. We had quite a lot of feedback to say that coming out of work in the middle of the afternoon was a bit tricky, so hopefully making it later will suit more people. Continue

Added by Dave Briggs on February 4, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Photos #ukgc09

Here are a few more photos of the day thanks to Rhys Stacker. Enjoy! Continue

Added by Michelle Lyons on February 3, 2009 at 1:14pm — 1 Comment

Next time can we give ourselves shorter sessions...

The first BarcampUKGovweb had 50 session slots for around a hundred participants. Typically the sessions were 25 mins. BarcampUKGovweb09, although going on an hour longer, had only 30 slots for some 120 plus (?) participants. To me this ratio is getting just too far away from the spirit of barcamp: "8th Rule: ..., you HAVE to present. (Ok, you don't really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.)" I agree there doesn't have… Continue

Added by Phil Green on February 3, 2009 at 10:56am — 2 Comments

Reflections on a barcamp: turning the conversation into action after ukgc09

I've written up my post-barcamp thoughts here if you're interested. Includes a brief write-up of the Twitter session, can go into more detail if people want it. It was great meeting/seeing you all (and apologies to those I failed to talk to). Continue

Added by Neil Williams on February 2, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

I was asked to post some of the quotes that I used in the Political Theory 2.0 session

For more context, they are lifted from recent blog-posts of mine. Here they are:

Speaking notes on Political Theory 2.0 s

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Added by Paul Evans on February 2, 2009 at 11:32am — 3 Comments

Evaluation metrics for online engagement activities

Thank you to everyone that joined in the discussion yesterday about the types of evaluation metrics that are needed when measuring government engagement activity. You can add your thoughts to the wiki page, which will be open for comment for one more week. If you want to chat about this further give me a shout! Continue

Added by MIchelle Lyons on February 1, 2009 at 8:04pm — No Comments

Consultation slides from #ukgc09

In case anyone's interested, here are the online versions of the slides I presented yesterday on consultations: Online Consultation? Or digitally-enhanced policymaking (with Paul Johnston) How structured data might make consultation publishing less painful (with Harry Metcalfe) Continue

Added by Steph Gray on February 1, 2009 at 1:21pm — 2 Comments

Blogging, CPD & Online Learning: Finding People

* Social:Learn * OpenLearn * Warwick e-portfolios * WarwickBlogs * Trombinoscopes * Thoughtfarmer Org Charts Continue

Added by Casey on January 30, 2009 at 11:08pm — No Comments

The Spirit of Web 2.0

What do technologists need to know about communications?
What should communicators learn about technologies?
Where does editorial responsibility/content ownership lie?
Can communication be managed within interactive (web 2.0) channels? If so, how? In a top-down way or in a self-governing way?
How do Facebook/Bebo/blogs/social bookmarking fit into a communications mix? (The peer-to-peer benefits are clear, the organisation to member/customer dynamic is

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Added by Casey on January 30, 2009 at 9:26pm — No Comments

What are you Doing?

Hey, I take it all back, I think I’m beginning to get into the swing of Twitter. Last week we launched OU_Life_News on Twitter and the number of followers that we have for it is slowly building. Essentially it’s a news feed from our intranet news (which as regular readers will know will be changing in September anyway), but really it’s a bit of a test case to see whether or not it works before we start to do more with it. Feedback so far:

Updates should contain a direct link to the

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Added by Casey on January 30, 2009 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Cabinet Office Employee Engagement Kit

The Cabinet Office has put together an amazing pack on an approach on Employee Engagement (complete with survey). The contents of this post, which is a draft of a paper that I am putting together for our Management Committee, is shamelessly stolen from the pack.

Engaged employees in the UK take an average of 2.69 sick days per year; the disengaged take 6.19 1
70% of engaged employees indicate that they have a good understanding of how to meet customer needs, while only 17% on

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Added by Casey on January 30, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments