A lively kick off to LocalGovCamp Lincoln with this session on ideas and experience of social networking in local government as suggested and lead by Chris Schubert of East Lindsay District Council.
This session started with a discussion about whether council’s should use Facebook or whether people are going to Facebook for purely social reasons and [...]

I read an interesting post by Carl Haggerty recently called ‘Why do you participate with social media?’ which he’d written after seeing a presentation on the subject.
I have, on occasion, asked myself the same question – why do I participate? Broadly (and a bit lazily) I usually summarise with a) It’s useful and interesting b) [...]

I wrote a while back about a dream I had to set up a Social Media Cafe for Derby and Derbyshire and now that dream has become a reality!
The first Derby/shire Social Media Cafe took place at QUAD in Derby on 1 October. It was a very informal gathering but I was thrilled that around [...]