Ed Mitchell over at Platform Neutral picks up on the issue of Return on Investment (ROI) for on-line communities, quite rightly identifying this as growing topic for debate and argument over the coming months. In Ed’s words: “ROI for ‘communities’…
Anyone who believes that the UK government is doing a sterling job in protecting our personal information, and that the recent lapses at HMRC, the NHS, the MOD, the ONS, The Driving Standards Agency….etc. are just unfortunate ‘one-off’ mistakes,…
There’s probably not a lot more I can say about the excellent UKGovWeb barcamp event that took place at the Google offices on Saturday 26th January that hasn’t already been said by the raft of energetic bloggers that made up the majority of the de…
I attended the “Gov 2.0, or Truly Transformative Government” seminar held at Portcullis House yesterday afternoon. The event was sponsored by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) and in partnership with the Oxford Internet Ins…
I’m looking forward to attending the UKGovWeb barcamp this coming Saturday 26th January – though not quite sure what to expect, this being my first barcamp event. However, I’m encouraged by the fact that the organisers (and primarily Jeremy Gould)…
One for the kiddies…
Dave Briggs has posted details of an event being arranged on 26th February as part of the Community of Practice for Social Media & Online Collaboration. This will be of potential interest to anyone working in (or for) the public sector who is usin…
I guess most people choose the conferences they attend with care. There’s nothing worse than having shelled out good money (my own in most instances since I work as an independent consultant) on a 2-day conference when you realise within the first…
Euan Semple comments on the topic of social network analysis (or measuring the immeasurable!).Euan identifies two points that make him nevous about SNA: “The first is because the activity is invariably couched in terms of one group – managers, the…
Picked up today from Wikileaks, it seems our American cousins over at Guantanamo Bay have been modifying content in Wikipedia that they disagree with and adding stuff which (allegedly) gives us a more balanced picture of what they’re up to over th…
