Video by Punk Zebra for BLFLeaders Birmingham Leadership Foundation helps new and aspiring leaders to emerge. They connect emerging leaders with established leaders to help them learn from each other’s experience. They organise networking events, training and connect existing leadership development projects to encourage the next generation of leaders in Birmingham to develop – leaders who reflect the …
“Charities should be the gold standard for open data” – and so should local gov.
Karl Wilding and I have worked together on social media and the implications of the web for civic activity since 2007. He’s head of Policy and Research and NCVO (I’m on the advisory board of NCVO) and a very clever/prescient man. Here he talks for Guardian Voluntary Sector Network about what open data means for …
Telling the stories of homeless people in the UK using social media – Mark Horvath is coming from over the pond
http://youtu.be/zkUzCWBfrQ8 Sometimes the difference we make is looking at things with fresh eyes. It seems to me that that is what Mark Horvath plans to do when he visits Britain to gather and share stories of homelessness here. He’s crowdsourcing funds in the USA for a project to spend a month in the uk helping …
Data visualisation: what do you think school is for?
Sue Beardsmore spoke to a class of primary school children in Birchfield, asking the children to tell her what they think of school, the city of Birmingham and what they hope to do when they grow up. Sue tabulated the answers into a spreadsheet and I’ve had a quick play at visualising one question in …