public sector

Global Service Jam 2012: Newcastle {part 1}

March 22, 2012

Intro A couple of posts describing what I was up to (with a whole load of others), on the weekend of the 24-26th February. This post gives background, the second one gives a flavour of what we got up to – in the form of photos, videos, and sound. Background I recently attended a Service [...]

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Quick write up of ‘Data Reveals Stories’

June 17, 2010

Introduction Yesterday I attended ‘Data Reveals Stories’: Hoult Session # 2 with mySociety – with the blurb describing it as: Northern Film & Media host mySociety for our second Hoult Session: a one-day seminar in Newcastle on June 16 about how Britain’s new wealth of open data can be harnessed to reveal hidden stories, tell [...]

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Technology Strategy Board – potential sources of funding

June 3, 2010

Introduction Last week I attended a presentation by the Technology Strategy Board about two competitions they are running. It was the morning before Thinking Digital, and included an enjoyable presentation by Ewan McIntosh (more details at Partnering for Innovation: NoTosh helping launch £18m digital fund). I thought it would be useful to reproduce the related [...]

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Top Twitter strategy doc from HMG

August 3, 2009

A quick post to republish this document that I found via ‘Government advice urges tweeting’ article on the BBC website. The source for this is the Cabinet Office’s digital engagement blog. If you are a corporate, then this is for you. Contents Quoting from the document: “It covers: Objectives and metrics – why we are [...]

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