Tag Archives: Social media

G-Cloud take home thoughts from the second Tea Camp

This weekend will see the announcement of the names of more than 300 suppliers who have been successfully added to the G-Cloud Framework. In light of this exciting news, the second Tea Camp held yesterday at the National Audit Office … Continue reading

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How Young People Use The Internet

In 2007, I was interviewed by a colleague in order to compile a blog post on ‘How Teenagers Use The Internet.’ It effectively served as my response to an article making the rounds at the time: a briefing paper on … Continue reading

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Gov Camp 2012 – 15 take home pointers

GovCamp 2012 was awesome. With two days of packed and uber interesting un-conference style talks, coupled with an opportunity to talk to and debate with a whole host of varied people, the event was truly worth working on a Saturday … Continue reading

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Five useful links for the new look NHS

I speak to a lot of health care professionals about stakeholder engagement. The overwhelming problem faced by many in the NHS is the new engagement strategies needed by the GP Consortiums. I’ve gathered some helpful links to assist those re-thinking … Continue reading

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Thames Tunnel videos syndicated from our site

As I touched upon in my previous launch post we made the decision to host all of Thames Tunnel’s consultation materials on resources that allowed users to easily share, embed and generally syndicate them.  One of these systems is the … Continue reading

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Five interesting pieces of digital democracy news for people working in Local Government

1) Guidance – best value consultation + communities Just released: guidance from Communities and Local Government on Best Value Duty. This document provides guidance on how authorities can work with voluntary and community groups and small businesses when facing funding … Continue reading

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Local Authorities, Government And Social Media

It’s funny how some ideas stay hidden for a long time, and then get mentioned by separate people in separate places all at the same time isn’t it? This idea’s one of those, and it’s a quick one really. Traditional … Continue reading

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What Twitter is saying about ‘Your Freedom’

Unsurprisingly, the launch of http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/ has been accompanied by a significant amount of Twitter activity, with people talking about the site’s existence, sharing ‘interesting’ ideas and making known their feelings about both the process and the site.  So far, there … Continue reading

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