Spent 2 days talking gov and engagement at UKGovCamp 2012. Massively inspiring unconference with lovely, passionate people. Here’s random thoughts while I’m trying to digest and organise (and rest.)
Day 1
Why aren’t The Daves (Briggs and Coplin) traveling the globe, opening tech events as the world’s first geek comedy duo?!?
Social media [...]
It’s Social Media Week London, and I’m booked on a panel discussion on Monday, pitting me as ‘the Social Media Purist’ against specialists from PR, SEO, Social Technology and Digital Marketing backgrounds.
All my projects have revolved around providing social media advice and training with the objective of empowering the client to [...]
Earlier this week I spoke to Lizzie who runs the communications for the Shine 2010 unconference.
We spoke about a lot of things connected to the event. I took part last year and didn’t feel a huge amount of community engagement. It’s funny to think that I feel more positive community cohesion in the [...]
So last year I went around and told people at the World Travel Market to look to their own local communities before trying to build a social media campaign. This year I’ve actually applied to speak about it (yes, in front of people and all that!)
This is the synopsis I just submitted: (I’ve never [...]
DC10plusnetwork great day at #localgovcamp thank you so much to @the_anke and @hadleybeeman – it was huge fun, inspiring, real learning & great networking
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E11ie5 great day at #localgovcamp thank you so much to @the_anke and @hadleybeeman – it was huge fun, inspiring, real learning & great networking
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