Posts Tagged ‘unconference’

Posted on March 12th, 2010 by by Sarah

‘Change’

Gov geeks headed for London on Thursday 4 March and gathered for another LocalGovCamp unconference.
With so much to pack into a day we were asked to use just one word to describe why we’d come along and what we hoped to get out of the day as we did a round of introductions. My word [...]

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Posted on February 5th, 2010 by by Sarah

The future of journalism

Or ‘The future of journalism: How do government press offices evolve alongside journalism?’
This session was led by Eve Shuttleworth from the Ministry of Justice and was a great example of how an unconference can work; someone tweets a comment from an early session, leads to back channel chat, session suggested and duly added to the [...]

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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by by Sarah

LocalGov group hug*

A slightly unusual name for the first session I attended at UKGovCamp10, suggested and led by someone I won’t name as they’d come unofficially rather than on behalf of their organisation.
The session was intended to share progress, experience and tips on social media,online and technology for local government. The focus was on how to get [...]

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