Social media, local government, and Learning Pool Dave Briggs Community Evangelist

First, some introductory stuff

@davebriggs [email_address] www.davepress.net

@davebriggs [email_address] www.davepress.net

What’s a community evangelist?

How I got here …

From the benefits office to Downing Street in 5 years (and a blog)

Why this stuff matters

Websites don’t change the world. People do.

A frankly scary pace of change

"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring"

The Long Tail (something about niches)

"We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."

Here Comes Everybody

Individual and yet social

Infobesity?

“ There is no information overload, only filter failure”

Open source

“ Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow”

If you don’t do it, someone else will

Local gov needs to start:

Listening Creating Sharing

What’s this got to do with e-learning?

T HIS IS NOT (just) A COMMS THING

Learning works best when it’s social

It’s certainly more fun

Finding (and keeping) your talent

It goes beyond all this, though

Interactive websites need interactive organisations

The 21 st century council?

Should local gov be more like Apple or Google?

A new relationship between the citizens and government

Learning Pool can help your council understand this stuff

Also, there’s money on offer!

We have ideas We have skills

Talk to me! [email_address]

Talk to me! [email_address]