Articles from June 2010
Posted by IngridK on June 30, 2010
Yesterday I saw Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody and the just now published Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age speak at the RSA. Professor Shirky is a gen-U-ine Internet guru who has put academic weight behind some of the things we all suspected about social networking and through this work [...]
Categories: Communities of Practice |
Tags: Clay Shirky, cognitive surplus, RSA, social networking | 
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Posted by IngridK on June 29, 2010
For as long as there’s been the argument for open data from Government, there’s been an argument about how useful it really is. There have been some really cool applications from the ASBOrometer to the live Tube map. But a lot of these need just a little extra tweak to make them really, really useful [...]
Categories: Efficiency Exchange, khub |
Tags: benchmarking, data, efficiency, improvement, local government, open data | 9 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 28, 2010
via flickr.com The boy was quite excited by all the World Cup paraphernalia. The flags, the bunting, the football t-shirts. The three lions everywhere. The England themed mini-footballs for sale in the grocery store. But he wasn’t quite as excited by the actuality. He didn’t like watching football. And he didn’t like me watching it [...]
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Posted by IngridK on June 24, 2010
New LocalGov2.0 posts: A blog which captures examples of social media and open data use in local government. Open Data in Salford – http://ow.ly/17QYNr From Data to Transparency in D.C. http://ow.ly/17QQyR Have fun in Hampshire app http://ow.ly/17PTiX Ideas for Seattle http://ow.ly/17PaYf Patient Opinion http://ow.ly/17OlBb Food safety inspections? There’s an app for that. http://ow.ly/17Nb5Z Council Blogs [...]
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Posted by IngridK on June 23, 2010
So, England finishes second in Group C and doesn’t get knocked out. Excellent. That was an agonizing 90 minutes, but at least England led for most of the game. They play Germany on Sunday. Not so good. C’mon England. I sure hope Fabio has them practicing those penalties. And USA finishes top of the Group [...]
Categories: football, Remembrance of things past |
Tags: England, Germany, Ghana, USA, World Cup | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on June 21, 2010
via flickr.com Delphiniums in the field trials at RHS Wisley. Blue spires. Blue sky. Blue. Posted via web from Ingrid’s posterous
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Posted by IngridK on June 18, 2010
All the best from the Efficiency Exchange – you need to be logged into the Communities of Practice to follow these links MONDAY: We welcome our first guest in the hotseat – Tim Coates, former MD of Waterstones and a campaigner and consultant for improved services in libraries at lower cost. Although his focus has [...]
Categories: Efficiency Exchange, Uncategorized |
Tags: efficiency, Efficiency Exchange, local government, public sector, recession, saving | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 17, 2010
Yesterday we hosted the Local by Social: social innovation in local government. It followed on from the joint IDeA/NESTA publication Local by Social which we published in March. This was an event designed to bring alive some of the changes that we’re seeing not so much in local government but in the whole concept of [...]
Categories: innovation, khub |
Tags: efficiency, event, IDeA, innovation, local by social, social innovation, social media | 4 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 15, 2010
Sunday was quite the sightseeing day for me. I started off in York where I’d been attending a weekend conference, with little time to take in all the fabulous things to see except from the outside. But I got a few shots of York Minster from the outside And then I met my husband at [...]
Categories: Family fun |
Tags: London, Thames Clipper, tourism, Tower of London, transport, York | 2 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 15, 2010
Interesting things from around the web… saved and republished via Delicious bookmarks Communities of Practice for Local Government | How well do organisations communicate with Mrs Duffy? Charlie Mansell writes about the communications issues for people like “that woman”, Mrs Duffy. And why treating people like human beings rather than objects is how to really [...]
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Tags: CLG, data, expenditure data, local government, open data, policy, social media | No Comments »
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