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I was reading David Cameron’s speech at the Imperial College London yesterday titled ‘Giving power back to the people’ and he actually managed to pull out some nice examples of public data use or rather, what is possible. He even used the word ‘mashed up’, which hopefully means the word has been slightly demystified.
June 30th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inData|0 Comments
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This morning Mayor Michael Bloomberg kicked off the Personal Democracy Forum—a conference about the intersection about technology and politics—by announcing a new annual competition that awards cash prizes to Web developers who come up with innovative Internet and mobile applications using city data. Mr. Bloomberg also said he’d take the grand-prize winner out to dinner. [...]
June 30th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inData,Local democracy,Social Media|0 Comments
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Having sprouted a local surgery in Acocks Green (and the idea spreading even further to Brighton), the original Birmingham Social Media Surgery returns to Fazeley Studios for another session of free help and advice for Birmingham based voluntary and community organisations wanting practical help with getting their heads around social media. When & Where Next [...]
June 29th, 2009 | by paulhenderson | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media,Social Media Surgery|3 Comments
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Only a few months after the launch of the project (well, game) ScenicOrNot, MySociety is making the data available for the public. The data contains information about 217.000 images and is being updated on a weekly basis. It is collected through an interactive game where users rate different parts of the UK based on its [...]
June 29th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inData|0 Comments
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On Saturday I popped up to Handsworth for a community consultation event. John Heaven, a social media savvy council officer, was there live blogging with this wordpress site that he created literally as the event started. John and I also tweeted the event (using different tags – doh) and you can find the streams for [...]
June 27th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration,Local democracy,Social Media|4 Comments
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As well as bragging about what we are good at, an important element in the further development of these things, is to look at what we can learn from others. Using this post as a starting point, we have listed the first few things that we would love to see Birmingham learn from. Obviously we [...]
June 27th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
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Yesterday, people on twitter noticed how Leicester Police is using a Google maps mashup, to display recorded incidents of helicopter usage in the city. The map includes incidents from the last three months, no say about whether this will change or not. You can browse through the incidents based on where and when they happened. [...]
June 26th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inData,Mashups|0 Comments
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No messing around, the people at the last surgery said they’d like one again soon, so here it is: Wednesday 1st July drop in any time between 5.30 to 7pm (finish time) at the Inn on the Green B27 7UH, Acocks Green (map). Whether you want to come and help or get help yopu’re very welcome. [...]
June 25th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inSocial Media Surgery|4 Comments
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We kicked off the first of several hyperlocal social media surgeries on Monday in Acocks Green. Brendan at the Inn on the Green had kindly offered us use of his office wi-fi – which just reaches one corner of the bar. Thanks for the generous hospitality. What was I expecting? I thought that we would [...]
June 25th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Local democracy,Social Media Surgery|4 Comments
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A Word Cloud has the ability to visualise words based on the number of appearances in a particular text. I know this is very very basic stuff for some people, but I think it is an important post to help people understand that data can indeed be seen and used in different ways. I won’t [...]
June 25th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inData|2 Comments
