The leadership blogging series on this site will continue to dance around what is essentially a single point: That blogs are good for getting others to help you describe a problem (the essential prelude to solving it effectively). People who have thought about this potential for any length of time have concluded that an effective [...]
Posts under ‘Online engagement’
Potent Facebook
You may have seen this already, but it’s worth another showing. Using Twitter may offer some instant gratification, but it’s worth remembering just how potent Facebook is as a medium. The Conservative Party’s digital manager Samuel Coates recently tweeted that a Tory microsite got something in the order of ten times as many referrals from [...]
New series: Leadership blogging – a primer
I’m going to be publishing a series of practical advice posts here on ‘leadership blogging’ -how social media can help influential people increase their influence – and (perhaps more importantly) be more influenced by others in useful directions. These posts won’t really tell you what to say if you decide to start using blogging tools [...]
Debategraph
The G20 Summit is providing an appropriate showcase for the excellent Debategraph application. I’ve written about it over here on the Local Democracy blog, but as a quick primer, Debategraph takes the idea of a ‘debate wiki’ one step further – providing a Graphical User Interface to arguments. I’d argue that this is the most [...]
Mixed Ink
At the end of February, I was in Miami for the WeMedia Pitchit final. It was a fantastic event – very interesting to see what the social media community looks like in the US – how they are responding to the different challenges of a different polity. I’ve written this up in more detail over [...]
An instructive online consultation
Though there are lots of ways to make a document available for commenting online, I’ve still not seen anything as effective as the use of a slightly hacked blog in allowing the public to get into the detail of a document. A few years ago, the Power Enquiry made it’s findings available in this way. [...]
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