When I speak to council officers and civil servants about community engagement the conversation often conjures up mental images of docking space stations. The officers are sincerely trying to picture interesting ways to approach the community, connect with it, create an airlock where they and the community can talk and then back into their own …
Six Ways Herdington
A chance to buy cards and support North Birmingham Community Arts biscuit buying. (Contact nbca@blueyonder.co.uk) Reminds me a little of graphiquillan’s Misheard Birmingham badges.
Stephen Fry, Flowers in the Roundabout the BBC and our Narrowcasting Hell
This piece by Stephen Fry in defense of the BBC is well worth a read: What is the alternative, a ghettoised, balkanised electronic bookshop of the home, no stations, no network, just a narrowcast provider spitting out content on channels that fulfil some ghastly and wholly insulting demographic profile: soccer mum, trailer trash, teenager, gay, …
Civil Service Principals for Online Participation – Be Responsive.
After the suspension of a civil servant for blogging Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson has finally got some guidelines up to help civil servants join the online conversation. They are based on the civil service code and a big conversation which was encouraged by Tom on his blog and evolved into Richard Allan’s task force …