Articles from November 2009
Posted by IngridK on November 28, 2009
Fabled myth of the return of Quetzalcoatl or not, Cortes and his band of followers had some major cojones in taking on one of the most vicious and violently expansionist empires of the New World with a scant few men and no chance of backup. In Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler – a special exhibition at the [...]
Categories: culture vulture, current events commentary |
Tags: Aztec, British Museum, Communism, mexico, Moctezuma, Montezuma, Staffordshire Hoard | 
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Posted by IngridK on November 26, 2009
This morning when I dropped Bill off at nursery the kids were all busy making Christmas trees out of green construction paper and red tissue and glue and glitter. “Christmas already?” I said. “I’m not ready for that.” “You don’t do Christmas until really late?” Bill’s nursery teacher said. “No, I wait til after Thanksgiving [...]
Categories: expatica, Family fun |
Tags: artwork, crafts, hand turkey, thanksgiving, toddler | 4 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on November 16, 2009
OK, some of these are more than a week old: Efficiency ConservativeHome’s Local Government Blog: Localis says Councils will need to find 20% spending cuts Localis suggests looking hard at discretionary services and interstingly also advocates real time performance data. Data Pezholio » Blog Archive » Impossible possibilities – A wishlist for linked data [...]
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Tags: crime, facebook, gov2.0, Links, local government, police, social media | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on November 13, 2009
This photo has shot up in Interestingness on my Flickr account recently. Not entirely sure why. Interestingness is a funny measure of, well, interestingness for the images on Flickr. It’s based on algorithm as closely guarded as the Colonel’s recipe, but you can guess that some of the 11 herbs and spices are views, [...]
Categories: photo |
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Posted by IngridK on November 13, 2009
I’ve been proofing the oral history I took with my grandfather about a decade ago. I’m planning to get it printed up via Blurb.com (unless someone can tell me of an easier text-based self-publishing company) and give it to family members for Christmas, so there’s an actual deadline to this project. Problem is I hate [...]
Categories: musings, Remembrance of things past |
Tags: Bill Powell, drinking dens, Lawrenceburg, oral history, Tennessee | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on November 12, 2009
Spelling counts PM Gordon Brown has been at the centre of a penmanship furore. Apparently it’s his practice to write to the families of British soldierswho fall in the line of duty. The mother of Jamie Janes, killed in Afghanistan, received such a letter from Mr Brown. She wasn’t too happy. In the hand written [...]
Categories: current events commentary |
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Posted by IngridK on November 11, 2009
Are PM and social media natural bedfellows? Yesterday I gave a presentation on performance management and social media to an advisory group to the IDeA’s Managing Local Performance project. Some sceptical person said to me “Is there a relationship?” – Absolutely, I said. And I hope my presentation went on to show that many of [...]
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Posted by IngridK on November 10, 2009
Notes for a panel session on councillors and social media at the London Councils Summit which took place on Saturday 7 November. I spoke alongside three councilors James Cousins, Wandsworth, Steve Reed, Leader of Lambeth Council and Mary Reid, Kingston-upon-Thames The Improvement and Development Agency is working on three areas of social media for councils. [...]
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Tags: council, councils, IDeA, khub, local government, social media | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on November 6, 2009
Though it pains me to say it, I’ve been smoking on and off for most of my life. I’ve had significant periods of smoking and some fairly significant periods of not smoking. I quit quite easily when I became pregnant, and that I’m afraid – lulled me into a false sense of quittingness. I’ve restarted [...]
Categories: musings |
Tags: Mac, smoking | 4 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on November 5, 2009
I spent the day at the Local Government Information Unit’s conference on social media and local government. A fabulous day chaired by Andy Sawford. I presented alongside Iain Dale (of political blogging fame) and Kerry McCarthy MP – Labour’s Twitter Supremo. I trotted out my old 10 Social Media Myths in Local Government – it’s [...]
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