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Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 13, 2008

  Who’s coming to the Birmingham Social Media Surgery, BAD08

I thought is was time to take stock, not least to ensure sufficient tea and coffee for the social media surgery which us Birmingham bloggy folk are organising (with BVSC ) to support voluntary and community groups in the city on Blog Action Day . If you want to know how social media...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008

  Blog Action Day in Birmingham - a social media surgery for voluntary orgs.

Over here Jon Bounds has reminded us of our collective Birmingham blogger wish to mark Blog Action day next week in some shared way.  When Tom Watson asked us about this a while back there was plenty of enthusiastic muttering. The theme for blog action day 2008 is poverty,...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008

  Global Giving in the uk.

blank” href=”http://www.globalgiving.co.uk/”> donatetograssrootsprojects;education,health,microfinance.jpg” /> I’m late with this but want to mention it anyway. The really imaginative US programme Global Giving is now operating in the UK through...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Sep 2, 2008

  Google Reader explained by Commoncraft.

I think it was Antonio who once gave me the helpful feed reader analogy of it being like sending your dog to the front door to see if the paper has arrived yet rather than constantly trudging there yourself.  Commoncraft have a crack at their own explanation. Hattip Tony Molloy ....... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008

  Groundwork UK, twitter and how about a map for funding applications?

The image above is some of the feedback from asking my friends on twitter how Groundwork might use the service.   The group I was working with were a little surprised (“wow”) by the speed and quality of the input from a network tool like this – so to Laura ,...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 28, 2008

  Crime Mapping from the British Government based on a West Midlands example

Tom Watson , William Perrin and the Power of Information taskforce shows off some mock ups for crime mapping by neighbourhood and the whole social media story makes it onto the Telegraph’s front page with a couple of subsidiary articles – including one mentioning West Midlands...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008

  Communities in Control: real people, real media.

Empowered people tend to be good at conversation, understand their place in networks, have experience of how networks help get things done. So it is very good news that the new Government Empowerment White Paper acknowledges that social media (the conversational web) will play a part in...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jul 2, 2008

  Government websites need pavements

A simple summary from Steven L Clift about key ingredients for government websites if they are to help strengthen democracy: The typical e-government experience is like walking into a barren room with a small glass window, a singular experience to the exclusion of other community...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 30, 2008

  Review of the new Local Priorities web service from the Dept of Communities and Local Government

I do like the idea behind this new web service from the Department of Communities and Local Government which tells you what the Local Area Agreement is for improving the place you live in. Local Area Agreements are negotiated between a local council (plus the local strategic...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 10, 2008

  Birmingham’s Local Strategic Partnership on Youtube: Cutting CO2

Here’s a short film we made last week for Be Birmingham , the city’s recently re-branded Local Strategic Partnership .  In 2003 I was the director of a quango responsible for monitoring the work of the LSP in Birmingham. It was a futile job. You can expect more changes in...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh
Posted On:  Jun 9, 2008

  Bridging the digital divide is about strengthening human networks not internet access.

We can’t bridge the digital divide simply by providing internet access. Stepping across that divide comes when people use the internet to strengthen their social network and enrich their stock of social capital. When web access is used as an alternative mechanism to passively consume...... [view]

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