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Social Tools for Inclusive Public Policy
Last Thursday the Social Media Club and FutureGov teamed up at Canada House to deliver a conference called Global networks, local action: transforming communities with social media. Below are a few observations on the conference and the wider public sector.Political apathy and distrust of political institutions are... read full post
What should EU governments do with the web to transform public services?
To encourage EU governments to act more quickly on public services 2.0, we have joined with other partners to launch (what we hope will become) a co-created declaration on public services to sit alongside the ministerial declaration at Malmo in November 2009. read full post
User-Driven Companies Should Start from Within
My talk about user-driven companies and how we can go beyond surface-level user engagement from the Next09 conference in Hamburg. read full post
Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS?
Reports of the death of RSS at the hands of Twitter are exaggerated, though they contain a grain of truth. Here's why I think we are yet to see its real value in the enterprise. read full post
Amongst other things, we're connectors
Over the past few weeks two interesting things have surfaced time and time and time again in the client workshops, consulting engagements and pitches I've been involved in here at Headshift, namely that:the work we do behind firewall on the... read full post
Enabled by Design v0.1 is alive and kicking
New design innovation site launched for Enabled by Design this week - feedback welcome. read full post
Social media training - an online guide
One of the best things about my job here at Headshift is that I have various opportunities to inform and enthuse people about the benefits of using social media tools and services to support their existing processes. In order for... read full post
Do the Green Thing API
Greenthing has an API! read full post
Public services are more important than online election campaigns
Transforming government and public services are more important than electioneering, so it will be interesting to see whether the impending UK election campaign accelerates change or holds it back in favour of traditional politics. read full post
Broken Buying
At the UK Government Bar Camp last weekend, there was a lot of discussion in many of the sessions about public sector procurement - particularly IT procurement.Basically, it's broken.I was acutely aware of this before I turned up at the... read full post
Three themes for local government in 2009
At the Local Government Breakfast we co-hosted with Futuregov, I outlined three priority area we are keen to pursue with local government in 2009: humanising organisations, difficult conversations and next generation public services. read full post
Twitter: fount of free drinks
Over the years I reckon I've tried hundreds of social networking sites, blogging and micro-blogging tools, online participatory spaces, and content sharing services. In most instances I register, set up a profile, have a look around, and abandon all in... read full post
Local Government breakfast tomorrow
Headshift are sponsoring a Local Government breakfast club meeting on January 20th, in Kings Cross, London. read full post
Smaller, smarter solutions for charities and non-profits
Some thoughts on how single-issue-groups, charities and membership organisations can use the collective knowledge and passions of their supporters in much more creative and accessible ways using simple open source tools. read full post
Openness with policies and software
A site designed for opening up the policy formation process by trusting people to develop high quality content, based on software built in a very similar way. read full post
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