Please government can we stagger end of financial years? Can Local Government end theirs in April, Central Government in July, the NHS in October, etc etc – can publicly funded organisations like social landlords do something similar too? Public money can and does get wasted in the unruly rush to the end of March. You …
Feedback from the Flip training delegates
In September we trained a group of citizens to use Flip cameras, so that they would be able to record events as part of Birmingham Local Democracy Week website. We documented this over at the Local Democracy Week website, and last week we sat down with some of them for a chat about how it …
Local by Social Midlands and neighbourhood blogs
John Samuels had a good day on Saturday. Not only did he become a grandfather (again) he became a blogger for the first time. We ran a social media surgery as part of the first Local by Social event – the Midlands one. (Local by Social is a Futuregov and IDeA programme to get local …
Social media Surgeries win a Birmingham Invisible City’s Media Circus award – thank you!
Thank you to everyone who voted for Social Media Surgeries to win in the Creative Birmingham Invisible City’s Media Circus awards. The public voted in a number of categories and you lot voted the surgeries top in most helpful. Thank you. Here’s a bit more on the awards Media Circus 2010 from Karl Binder on …