Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics
I’ve been out and about again this week and speaking to Council’s about their social web strategies. Its interesting (to me at least!) to note a couple of the ideas which seem to have the greatest resonance as it would be good to know if these are themes which are emerging anywhere else:
Government should [...]
I went to an interesting seminar last week at the CLG (yes – unusual!) where Prof. Lawrence Pratchett and Dr Catherine Durose from De Montfort University talked about a recent systematic review they have carried out of a number of different empowerment tools. You can find the full report on the CLG site and [...]
Yes – I’m new here – I think Paul asked me as we have been having a falling out about Petitions over on my blog and he likes an argument.
You can find out more about me there obviously but probably the most relevant fact is that I am currently researching for a PHD around the [...]
There’s a good deal of useful stuff here for anyone with an interest in new conversational applications.
The three that stand out for me are….
PatientsLikeMe
TeachStreet
OpenCongress
The others are worth thinking about though. Mint, for example – in a year when finance-literacy is becoming very relevant indeed – aggregates a lot of personal data very neatly.
And for next [...]
Here’s Lichfield DC taking a pioneering interactive approach to communications, using open source tools. Too much there to comment on, but very well worth a look.
Via Dominic
UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron is visiting Northern Ireland this weekend to speak at an Ulster Unionist Party conference. Slugger O’Toole has been crowdsourcing questions for him, and he’s agreed to answer them.
The site’s managers are also encouraging Twitterers to post to a widget on the site.
The widget can be seen on the left [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? Picture Credits.
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