Since the launch of PICamp in late May, a number of important themes have been highlighted and addressed. The main one, it seems, is the small-p political nature of  many changes that are happening at the moment – changes that are brought about by the rapid take-up of usergenerated content tools.
These have been fleshed out [...]

In Belfast earlier this week, working on the inaugural PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp alongside Amplified 09.
We had some great coverage from the BBC’s Hearts & Minds programme – Nothern Ireland’s Thursday evening political slot.
 
 
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On Tuesday, I’ll be in Belfast (un)organising an Unconference called PICamp – the Political Innovation Camp.
I’m working with the Slugger O’Toole weblog and Amplified ‘09 in doing this, and we’re hoping to have sixteen sessions (that’s how many we have time and space for) – each one initiated by attendees.
The most exciting thing about this [...]

If you want to get an idea of the value of Twitter, here’s my experience in establishing an ‘unconference‘ and publicising it quickly and cheaply. 
Last week, myself and Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole launched PICamp. We did it using a free-of-charge Ning website and the whole development took about an hour – soup-to-nuts (as they say [...]

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be promoting and working on ‘picamp’ – the political innovation camp event in Belfast on the 26th of May.
This project is being done in conjunction with the Northern Ireland political weblog Slugger O’Toole, with NESTA-sponsored Amplified ‘09 and Queens University Belfast who have kindly allowed us to [...]