Articles from September 2010



I got sunshine on a cloudy day

Yesterday the Knowledge Hub programme team hosted a Yammer picnic for our staff, where we talked about how we can use social tools more effectively inside the organisation.  It was a gray and horrible day, but we brought our own sunshine, and I finally got to use the checked napkins that I  got as a [...]

Announcing: Local by Social online conference

We had a fabulous event over the summer called Local by Social – and we’ve got some regional events in the works (shhh! not quite ready to go public yet) -  through the Knowledge Hub we’re also running an online conference on the LGID Communities of Practice platform.  It will take place from 3 to [...]

Cllr James Cousins, Wandsworth and data

via jamescousins.com Continuing with councillor blogs- Wandsworth councillor James Cousins (Conservative) has been blogging for a while – and it’s fair to say that this is the councillor blog I read the most, not because of its quality (though I do think it’s pretty darn good) but because I am a resident! Like many good [...]

Tidy up time (apologies to feed subscribers)

OK, so I was actually a little surprised by how many subscribers I had to this feed, so apologies to everyone who experienced a couple of little splurges in their readers as I changed the feed that I direct into feedburner.  No more changes planned! I decided I needed to make some changes to this [...]

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Events, dear friends, events

Some groovy events going on… There are still places for gov-types at CityCamp London – and councils that would like help doing good stuff with their data or social tech are still required.  I’m very excited about this event. Folks in the West Midlands are getting together on 6 October for a Hyperlocal gov camp.  [...]

Open performance

I used to be a regular on the performance management speaking circuit.  Up and down the land.  Often two-handers with an Audit Commission colleague David Pottruff.  Pottruff und Koehler – sounds like the title of some kind of bad German police procedural or more likely a Fast Show sketch. But I don’t really work on [...]