Articles from January 2010
Posted by IngridK on January 28, 2010
The following are links to all kinds of community of practice goodness. You will need to sign in first to www.communities.idea.gov.uk – most of the communities are public meaning anyone can join. UKGovCamp: Communities of Practice for Local Government | Social Media and Online Collaboration Vicky Sargent provides and excellent report and links to this [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice |
Tags: CoPs, customer insight, guidance, local government, policy, social media, UKGC10 | 
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Posted by IngridK on January 28, 2010
J.D. Salinger is dead. I just saw someone Tweet that they had powerful memories of the first time they read Catcher in the Rye. I remember my second time better than my first time. The first time I think I stayed up quite late reading it – couldn’t sleep til I finished it. I believe [...]
Categories: culture vulture, Remembrance of things past |
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Posted by IngridK on January 25, 2010
If you really want to skill up in the area of social media applications in local government, the best place to go is one of the unconferences that are being run by practitioners for practitioners – like UKGovCamp (I attended one over the weekend and it was fabulous) and the forthcoming LocalGovCamp (4 March 2010 [...]
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Tags: local government, localgovcamp, social media | 8 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 22, 2010
Yesterday I attended the launch of data.gov.uk, held in the impressive headquarters of The Guardian who are certainly doing more than a bit in the field of open data. It was opened by Stephen Timms, MP and Minister for Digital Britain and inspirational words were spoken by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt about [...]
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Tags: data, data.gov.uk, LIS | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 20, 2010
The Guardian is reporting that the data.gov.uk website is expected to launch tomorrow – but apparently it’s already live – so everything’s in place bar the ribbon cutting by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the world wide web. So what’s the big deal about this? Well – it’s a huge step forward in [...]
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Tags: data, data.gov.uk, linked data, LinkedIn, open data | 7 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 20, 2010
Interesting links I’ve been saving over the last week or so, covering KM, efficiency, and social media in government. Knowledge Management Knowledge sharing: it may not be what you think it is « Enlightened tradition via @davidwilcox and @davidgurteen A Better Way to Manage Knowledge – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard [...]
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Tags: efficiency, gov2.0, knowledge management, social media | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 19, 2010
As if cake weren't quite unhealthy enough….this cake is fast food themed, the fries and nuggets are baked goods. Pretty amazing work. Posted via email from Ingrid’s posterous
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Posted by IngridK on January 18, 2010
via salvationarmy.org One of the sermons that has made the biggest impression on me was delivered by a member of the Salvation Army’s Caribbean territory to the non-denominational congregation we attended when we lived in Puerto Rico. They did some amazing, innovative and often counter-intuitive work there. For instance, they ran a jail. A jail [...]
Categories: appeals and campaigns, current events commentary |
Tags: appeal, charity, earthquake, haiti, salvation army | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 18, 2010
A round up of interesting links and things that caught my eye from communities of practice. Most (but not all) of them are from the IDeA’s Community of Practice platform www.communities.idea.gov.uk – and require registration. Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice – Social by Social Andy Gibson calls for interesting practice examples of social [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice |
Tags: local government, measurement, policy, social media, statistics | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on January 15, 2010
I’ve been meaning to go see the Sacred Made Real exhibit at the National Gallery for quite some time, but couldn’t quite convince anyone to go with me. I knew that it was an exhibit of creepy Spanish religious art, but I fully underestimated the level of torturous hyper-realistic portrayal of the suffering surrounding the [...]
Categories: culture vulture |
Tags: art, national gallery, religion, Spain, Zurbaran | 1 Comment »
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