Chris Taggart (member of the Local Public Data Panel) identifies the first of what is likely to be a growing number of enterprising organisations that will spring up as ‘the saviours’ to local councils struggling to come to terms with the need to …
It’s taken a while for me to get around to posting an update to my ‘Knowledge Hub Part 1’ post, mainly as a result of being fully immersed in the technology procurement process these past several months. This phase is now almost complete and we wi…
A topic close to my heart having developed the CoP platform for UK local government (http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk). With over 1000 facilitated CoPs working towards improvement in public services, there may be some facilitators looking for a …
URL: http://www.slideshare.net/powerpointslideshows/israeli-… Some very troubling images – be warned! I appreciate this is a very complex issue, with Israel no doubt justifying its actions as a response to shelling of civilians by Hamas. It’s di…
Encouraging letter from the PM. I just hope that MLF doesn’t get ground down by the bureaucracy of government. The ‘Big Society’ agenda requires speed and agility to develop some momentum. http://amplify.com/u/70th
A common and recurrent theme that I keep coming across is how to measure the value of knowledge management, e.g. the return on investment (ROI) of implementing a knowledge management strategy. This may cross over into having a social media strateg…
LSE event – free to attend on a first come, first served basis. Regretably I will be unable to attend this, but thought I could at least share the opportunity with any of my followers. Cognitive Surplus Department of Management public lecture Date…
via youtube.com The negative sentiment around Facebook goes viral! It amused me anyway.
Statement from Sir Time Berners Lee and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt would indicate that the cuts do not affect the Make Public Data Public initiative, and that the momentum for release of non-personal linked data via data.gov.uk portal will increase. So,…
My thanks to Jesus Matinez Marin and the organising committee for inviting me to address the Congreso Internacional EDO 2010 Conference in Barcelona (12-14 May). I only hope that I didn’t cause too many problems for the Spanish and Catalan transla…
