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 May 19, 2009
When routine bites hard, And ambitions are low, And resentment rides high, But emotions won’t grow, And we’re changing our ways, Taking different roads. Love will tear us apart – Joy Division I’m a sucker for 80s musical references during conference speeches and the IDeA’s New routes to better outcomes: improving delivery through local partnerships [...]
Categories: partnership |
Tags: conference, event, IDeA, LAA, local government, LSP, outcomes, partnership | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on October 13, 2008
Sometimes I can’t decide if innovation, especially as applied to public services, is really worth all the resources and attention applied to it. How much is really creative, really new, really an innovation? Isn’t much of of what is touted as innovation really adoption or adaption of good practice elsewhere? And anyway, along with genuine [...]
Categories: innovation, Uncategorized |
Tags: Communities of Practice, conference, innovation, LGA | 1 Comment »
Posted by IngridK on October 3, 2008
The web 2.0 seminar I attended on Wednesday/Thursday was great, but there was woeful little mentioned about local government or government in general (it wasn’t really aimed at us public sector types, though). The one exception was Dominic Campbell’s talk on what’s going on at the London Borough of Barnet. Barnet is really taking a [...]
Categories: community engagement |
Tags: Barnet, community empowerment, community engagement, conference, council, social media, web2.0 | 2 Comments »
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