Last Friday, Steph and I spent a great morning in Bexley at Orbit South housing association, with Orbit residents from Kent and Sussex. We worked with Heather, Paula, Peter, Sue and Jackie to set up their own Posterous blogs to talk about what’s going on in their neighbourhoods and to help them in their roles …
#Opendata @72prufrocks radishes and neighbourhoods – an unashamed lift.
There’s this really thoughtful post on where we live and opendata from Diane @72prufrocks – here’s a bit I’ve lifted to encourage you ro read the whole: Knowledge and experience dwells in neighbourhoods, because we do. On recent visit to Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol, I was struck by how firmly the centre is …
Social bookmarks for social media surgery managers
This week I’ve been playing with stacks on Delicious, the social bookmarking site. Stacks are a way to organise your links into a common theme and the new social features make collaborating much easier. To learn how the new features work – rather than curate links around an arbitrary theme (such as “most awesome kitten stunt videos”, …
Skills in Birmingham – our people, what they’re like and what we need
Later this month the Birmingham and Solihull LEP will start making some decisions about skills and work – asking themselves what skills do employers need and how to make them available. I know this because of a set of “skills” that are hard to measure or teach. One is being networked. Peter Latchford (who’s doing some …