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Posts in category Local Gov

Conwy Kids Matter

Dec15
2012
1 Comment Written by Alan
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Through my day job, I’m involved with lots of amazing people, but one group in particular stand out. They provide brilliant guidance and support for parents, often playing a vital role in turning situations around before things deteriorate to the point where children can end up being taken into care.

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Posted in Blog, Fundraising - Tagged charity, Child, Christmas, Conwy Kids Matter, Donation, Gift, Holiday, Toy

Cycle to work – how many actually do?

Oct24
2012
5 Comments Written by Alan
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The cycle to work scheme is a great way to get a new bike, but what else needs to be in place so that people will actually ride their bikes to work?

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Posted in Cycling - Tagged Bicycle, cycle facilities, cycle to work, cycle to work guarantee, Cycle to Work scheme, cyclescheme, cycling, Department for Transport, Employment, workplace

Can Wiggo’s Tour de France success influence UK cycling infrastructure?

Jul24
2012
2 Comments Written by Alan
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Being a relatively new convert to cycling, 2012 is actually the first time I’ve ever taken an interest in the Tour de France and followed it on telly. And of course, it’s been wonderful to watch Wiggins and Froome dominate, although my cycling club buddies assert it was even more fun to watch when everyone [...]

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Posted in Cycling - Tagged Active Travel, Bradley Wiggins, consultation, cycle paths, cycling, Tour de France, Wales, Welsh Government, Wiggins

Memories of the Olympic Torch passing through Conwy

May29
2012
Leave a Comment Written by Alan
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[View the story "When the Olympic Torch came to Conwy" on Storify]

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Posted in Blog, Social media - Tagged conwy, event, olympics, relay, storify, torch

When will North Wales emerge from the digital dark ages?

Apr12
2012
Leave a Comment Written by Alan
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I recently helped organise a conference which was attended by 120 professionals from across Health, Social Services, Education, the Police, and various vol orgs. Compare this group to the average Joe Public, and you’d probably see a higher level of education, higher earnings than the local average, and better access to things like smartphones. OK, [...]

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Posted in Social media, Web - Tagged communication, conference, digital, smartphone, social media, Twitter

Empowering staff: Crowd sourcing the operational plan.

Mar13
2012
Leave a Comment Written by Alan
Crowdsourcing the Op Plan

Crowd sourcing the annual operational plan using Results Based Accountability (RBA)

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Tagged collaboration, council, crowd sourcing, Open source, planning, Prezi, RBA, results based accountability, Ubuntu, Working group

Managing conferences or training events with Eventbrite.

Jan27
2012
Leave a Comment Written by Alan
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Remember years ago when Tomorrow’s World (BBC TV) told us how amazing the future would be, that we’d all have robot cleaners and loads more spare time because computers would handle everything for us? It all seemed, and still seems so far away. Computers have largely resulted in people spending a massive proportion of their [...]

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Posted in Social media - Tagged eventbrite, events, LSCB

A conference on the edge of chaos – welcome to the Unconference

Apr21
2011
Leave a Comment Written by Alan
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We’ve all been there. Dull conferences, where row upon row of plastic seats face plastic speakers intent on reading their slides verbatim, turning their backs to the audience at intervals, inadvertently producing the effect of one of those old fashioned rotating Leslie speakers. We have to resort to minor forms of self harm just to [...]

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Posted in Social media - Tagged local government, open data, shropcamp, social media, unconference

Influencing local gov as a customer

Apr21
2011
Leave a Comment Written by Alan
Head in Hands

I recently blogged that I’d signed up to participate in some workshops to develop the customer service team of the local authority in which I live. Read the intro in this post. I’ve since received a very formal email thanking me for my interest but regretfully informing me that due to a lack of interest, [...]

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Tagged Customer service, local authorities

5 tips to successfully implementing Yammer in #localgov

Apr09
2011
5 Comments Written by Alan
Yammer

Anyone who has ever worked in a large organisation knows that one problem raised at almost every brainstorming session about anything is – Communication. It’s always there, and nobody is ever surprised by its presence. It’s the elephant everyone’s ok talking about, because everybody knows internal communications suck. Corporate centres continue to cling to traditional [...]

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Posted in Social media, Web - Tagged collaboration, communication, Yammer
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