I saw this post a while ago about ‘asymmetrical information flows‘ and the changing hierarchies that applications such as Twitter bring to backchannel discussions in set-piece events.
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
TUC Social Media Seminar – speaking notes
I spoke at a TUC seminar last night. There were a few other really good speakers including one of my favourite political bloggers, Tom P, and high-traffic campaigner Richard Murphy , Nigel Stanley – TUC head of comms and manager of the ToUChstone blog. Here are my speaking notes. John Gray wrote about it on [...]
Membership organisations websites – the basics
I was at a TUC seminar on social media last night, doing a short talk alongside a couple of very good bloggers. I’ll post notes on what I said later, but – as a prelude, I thought I’d put up a short post about something that preoccupied me for a number of years while working [...]
Speaking to Trade Unions about social me …
Speaking to Trade Unions about social media tonight. Going to cover ideas like ‘crowdsourcing policy evidence’ ‘point-of-view shifting’ and trying to focus members on policy not politics, participative policy-making and the benefits (better quality, more credibility), increasing the visibility of Unions and recruitment patterns online. I’ll post the notes up here later.
Impartiality and journalism
Thinking about BBC impartiality – is it actually the unqualified virtue that some claim? There will be more on this subject over there shortly.
Compliance and impartiality
I’ve visited and presented to a lot of UK local authorities now – I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve visited over 100 in recent years. In each one, I’ve talked to them about how they can get their councillors to be active users of interactive tools. In each case, I’ve had to spend almost 80% [...]
Civil service independence
The Damian Green arrest has started a number of people to start questioning the value of an independent civil service. High-volume political blog Harry’s Place is the latest.
Slugger O’Toole awards – there’s going to be a year two….
The Slugger Awards went well, didn’t they? I’ll have a downloadable pdf report up here soon, but in the meantime, have a look at the Slugger Awards site and let me know what you think?
