Posts belonging to Category tech geekery
Posted by IngridK on July 14, 2011
Today I spoke at a SOCITM conference on Building Perfect Council Wesbsites. The title’s a bit funny, I think. Perfection is an impossible goal. But the great thing about the web is that you can keep on perfecting. Maybe they should have called the event building better and even better websites, but I suppose that [...]
Categories: customer insight, data, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: bpcw11, conference, event, gov2.0, local government, localgov, open data, presentation, social media, socitm, websites | 
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Posted by IngridK on June 28, 2011
This Friday Local DirectGov will be hosting the Really Useful Data event (1 July 2011) at the Department for Communities and Local Government in Central London. The event has just sold out – but you can still shape the day! UPDATE: A few additional tickets have JUST been made available. Sign up now. Or find [...]
Categories: data, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: #ru2011, data, DCLG, gov2.0, local directgov, localgov, open data, open government | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 25, 2011
This week I took my son to Deen City Farm. It’s one of a small number of city farms spread across London, helping little kids tell the difference between a sheep, a cow and an alpaca. I jest a little, because I’m a country girl. But I remember taking a university friend from Philadelphia up [...]
Categories: appeals and campaigns, Family fun, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: campaign, communications, cuts, Deen City Farm, facebook, marketing, Merton, social media, twitter, Wimbledon | 5 Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 20, 2011
Measuring the effectiveness of your social media effort: Or answering the really tough questions from people who are a little bit nervous about social media. At the recent LocalGovCamp, I was asked to present a session on performance management for social media. This is a little like performance managing telephone use. Yes, you can measure [...]
Categories: performance management, socialmedia, tech geekery |
Tags: communications, localgov, localgovcamp, measurement, media, objectives, performance management, ROI, social media, social value | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on June 19, 2011
Hack days are proliferating. These are collaborative events designed to turn open data into useful things. Getting a bunch of developer talent into a room and writing some code which will deliver a working prototype by the end of a day or two-days. They may be attached two a wider event, like Local by Social [...]
Categories: data, tech geekery |
Tags: #ru2011, CLG, data, event, hack, hack day, local directgov, local government, localgov, localgovcamp, open data | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 19, 2011
The other night my sister-in-law was visiting. She and my husband are in the same trade – tertiary education – so naturally they spend a lot of time talking shop. The internal politics, the slipping standards, and the cheating. Oh, the cheating! Or plagiarism. Or sloppy referencing. Or as seems particularly popular these days, just [...]
Categories: bee in my bonnet, communications, tech geekery |
Tags: cheating, crime, facebook, network, plagiarism, social network | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on June 1, 2011
It’s been a rough old seven months or so. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that navigating a major organisational restructure is a walk in the park. And no matter how much you were expecting it, seeing your job title on the list of deleted posts comes as visceral punch. I believe that I’ve done [...]
Categories: innovation, Local by social, partnership, tech geekery |
Tags: futuregov, gov2.0, localgov, work | No Comments »
Posted by IngridK on May 16, 2011
We’re redoing Connected Councillors: a guide to using social media for local leadership. And a big part of being a local politician is campaigning. Of course, there’s campaigning for office, but there’s also campaigning on local issues. Over the last year I’ve been gathering some examples of campaigning, but we’re looking for more! We’re looking [...]
Categories: communications, councillors, tech geekery |
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Posted by IngridK on April 30, 2011
I’ve been having a fabulous time on my hols in America – and I am thankful to the happy couple for giving me an extra day off. I’ve mostly been hanging out in my hometown. It’s in Lawrence County, Tennessee and sits right on top of the Alabama border. I don’t know if you’ve seen [...]
Categories: appeals and campaigns, tech geekery |
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