Podnosh uses social media for social and democratic benefit.

If you’re from a local council, public body, charity or working in neighbourhoods, we can help with everything from consultancy, development and training to doing.

That’s social media for collaboration, conversation, consultation, or even confrontation and campaigning.

These are some of our most recent blog posts

5 simple things a council should do to make a website work better for social media

I’ve just presented at Building Perfect Council Websites 2010 on a panel shared with Dr James Munro and his brilliant Patient Opinion and Jane Postlethwaite – and her experience of  being the social media officer for Brighton and Hove Council. I talked, as I often do, about online civic activists, social media surgeries and the [...]

Make Love Not Porn – a lesson in the way the internet changes society

Fascinating lesson from Cindy Gallop on how the internet changes our real world and the “pornification of culture”.  (have I just got this site blocked form every local government web service?) “The single biggest impact technology is having on our most fundamental human activity, our sexuality” Also includes a big challenge to understand social media [...]

Just showing someone how to write a quick blog post.

I’m with Titus Dawo at the Balsall heath Social Media Surgery.  All I’m doing here is giving him and idea of how simple it can be to publish to the web.

Big Society and barriers in government

I’m on the train home from the Big Society network launch in London this afternoon. A strong and varied group of people brought together to consider, be sceptical about and challenge the notion of the Big Society. Here I just want to share a few notes I made after joining John Houghton of Shared Intelligence [...]

Government Reservists 2 – an idea for the Big Society?

I’m on a train to London for the launch of the Big Society Network  and pondering.  This week Nat Wei described the Network  as having a …mission to be – in partnership with government, business, and the voluntary sector – an action-orientated remover of barriers to mass civic engagement where people live – enabling the [...]