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 nurturing of neighbourhood level civic activity online. The presentation is below but the 5 key points are: Read more
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 around pornography. Hat tip various on twitter.
See also www.textsfromlastnight.com
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.
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 and the National Association of Neighbourhood Management.
Breaking Down Practical Barriers Read more