Social media, local government, and Learning Pool Dave Briggs Community Evangelist discusses how social media and new technologies are changing the relationship between citizens and their local governments. He argues that local governments need to start listening to citizens, creating open and sharing content in order to better serve communities and find new talent. Learning Pool can help local governments understand these new technologies and ways of interacting with citizens to improve public services and learning opportunities.

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

3. First, some introductory stuff

4. @davebriggs [email_address] www.davepress.net

5. @davebriggs [email_address] www.davepress.net

7. What’s a community evangelist?

8. How I got here …

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

10. Why this stuff matters

15. Websites don’t change the world. People do.

16. A frankly scary pace of change

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

18. The Long Tail (something about niches)

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

20. Here Comes Everybody

21. Individual and yet social

22. Infobesity?

23. “ There is no information overload, only filter failure”

24. Open source

25. “ Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow”

26. If you don’t do it, someone else will

27. Local gov needs to start:

28. Listening Creating Sharing

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

30. T HIS IS NOT (just) A COMMS THING

31. Learning works best when it’s social

32. It’s certainly more fun

33. Finding (and keeping) your talent

34. It goes beyond all this, though

35. Interactive websites need interactive organisations

36. The 21 st century council?

37. Should local gov be more like Apple or Google?

38. A new relationship between the citizens and government

39. Learning Pool can help your council understand this stuff

40. Also, there’s money on offer!

41. We have ideas We have skills

42. Talk to me! [email_address]

43. Talk to me! [email_address]