Sharing Social Media skills, either in open mornings, through consulting, coaching or structured courses, was one of the main intentions when setting up the Unlibrary.
Tomorrow will be the start of a pilot 6 session Social Media course over 7 weeks, where face-to-face sessions are limited to an hour per week, and learning happens [...]
A local business needs to speak to its customers. Social Media is becoming mainstream (especially in my local area), yet businesses are still afraid to jump in. Apart from the time commitment (I get to hear ‘I don’t have time to tweet’ quite a lot) there are many fears involved.
This is understandable, but it [...]
Right at the beginning of this post, I should state that:
I do think hiring a digital agency to help with social media is worthwhile.
I do also think that in many organisations, decision-makers feel that they have no idea about social media, so are going into the process of deciding a strategy rather unprepared. [...]
I joined a session on Elluminate tonight. The amazing Dr Sue Black, whose involvement has turned things around for Bletchley Park, was talking about girls in computing studies, with Drew (Digitalmaverick) and assorted ICT and other teachers there.
It’s a frustrating subject with ICT being left out of the curriculum in my son’s school this [...]
Localgovcamp London on 4 March was one of the first “unconferences” that entered the mainstream of events, being held mid-week with a good number of very relevant people in attendance.
Unconference?
Unconferences are events where the agenda is not pre-planned, many sessions run side-by-side, and everyone contributes. More about structuring unconferences on [...]
DC10plusnetwork great day at #localgovcamp thank you so much to @the_anke and @hadleybeeman – it was huge fun, inspiring, real learning & great networking
about 18 hours ago from TweetDeck
E11ie5 great day at #localgovcamp thank you so much to @the_anke and @hadleybeeman – it was huge fun, inspiring, real learning & great networking
