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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 Local Gov, Social media, Web - Tagged communication, conference, digital, smartphone, Twitter

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 Local Gov, Social media - Tagged local government, open data, shropcamp, unconference

Dragging local authorities into the 21st century.

Apr09
2011
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  I work for a local authority adjacent to the one I live in. Just recently I’ve been trying to promote the use of tools like facebook pages and twitter accounts within my own  organisation, but sometimes it can seem like some people think social media means sharing a copy of your newsletter with a [...]

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Posted in Local Gov, Social media - Tagged consultation, Customer service

Using social media for charitable fundraising.

Jan23
2011
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Using social media for charitable fundraising.

Having been granted permission from our corporate overseers, I am delighted to be able to blog about a social media project which I’m now involved in developing. The work is being kindly supported by the CYP partnership, with the added aim of producing a toolkit of guidance for partner agencies and vol orgs, to share [...]

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Posted in Blog, Fundraising, Social media, Web - Tagged blogs, fundraising, website

Twitter – I get it now!

Jan16
2011
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Twitter – I get it now!

I finally understand why Twitter can be useful!

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Posted in Social media - Tagged Facebook, Twitter

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