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Pete Ashton has started Richard McKeever on something utterly brilliant. A blog dedicated to: doggedly collate images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques. Lets celebrate the work of our local elected representatives! Tweet suggestions to @glumcouncillors It uses a very simple free service [...]
August 27th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inLocal democracy,Social Media|0 Comments
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In Birmingham we have good experiences with the unconference/Barcamp style. Especially when it comes to gathering people around a specific topic or discussion. Another Barcamp or unconference is in the making, this time on the topic of Digital Inclusion. The people from ‘We Share Stuff’ got the idea after they attended the National Digital Inclusion [...]
August 27th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration|1 Comment
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Over at Talk About Local, Nicky Getgood (a brilliant local blogger herself) has written a short piece about the new hyper-local blog Bournville Village started by journalism graduate Hannah Waldram. As Hannah is not only a journalism graduate (like myself), but apparently also managed to do something with social media, I knew I had to [...]
August 22nd, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
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So how do you incorporate social media without making one single mistake? Easy; don’t incorporate it at all. First of all here’s what this post is all about: Birmingham City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, and Centro (the West Midlands transport authority) are currently working in partnership to improve the A41 Warwick Road route. The [...]
August 19th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inCollaboration|2 Comments
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A few days ago I promised to tell you the story about how the new site HelpMeInvestigate made it on to several mainstream media websites. The mainstream media thing is actually not that interesting, but at least it catches the eye of the general public when they are involved.
August 16th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inCollaboration|1 Comment
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When Seattle in the USA asked residents to fill out a survey about their neighbourhoods the results came back with something that doesn’t surprise me. The neighbourhoods that responded the best were the neighbourhoods with the most active hyperlocal blogs and websites. As Cory Bergman puts it: the top neighborhoods had something in common — [...]
August 14th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inLocal democracy|0 Comments
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Recently it came to light that the new Birmingham council website, was 3½ years late and £2 million over budget. The story was uncovered by HelpMeInvestigate (which I will tell you about in a few days), where members of the public can ask question and collaboratively try and answer them. But as was pointed out [...]
August 13th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
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Birmingham the social city View more presentations from podnosh. Above is a presentation given at BVSC this morning for a group of managers of voluntary organisations in Birmingham. We wanted to explain the cities social media” ecology, how it is changing an devolving and what it might mean in terms of their work and power [...]
August 11th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inBirmingham,Local democracy,Social Media|1 Comment
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This good looking tool extracts street and place names from news reports and shows us how a city is being reported. Echoes of a range of many mood mapping things, some of which are covered here by Charlie Pinder, and also seems to be have a more local feel than other news mapping tools. Jon [...]
August 11th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inLocal democracy,Social Media|1 Comment
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Ahh, it’s not quite that bad, but close. Tomorrow night there is yet another one of the frequent Brum Blogger meetups, and this time with a ‘real’ purpose (other than having a good time). The Brum Bloggers’ and everyone who wants to join, are saying goodbye to Jaki Booth who is relocating to Southampton for [...]
August 10th, 2009 | by Kasper Sorenson | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
