A 6-hour diary, Friday 25th September. 2PM So, it’s Friday afternoon, and as part of my social media MA course at BCU (now in day 2), the group have enjoyed a networking, idea development and ‘meet the local folk’ session over at the Birmingham Social Media Cafe. The coffee was all paid for by Birmingham [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Do It Yourself- A new Birmingham Website
Posted: 25th September 2009 by Paul Hadley in MA, UncategorizedTags: #bccdiy, Birmingham, hack, moseley, volunteer, website
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Blogging: a new way to lead
Posted: 22nd September 2009 by Paul Hadley in UncategorizedTags: blogging, brunstrom, council, creative commons, lead, Norfolk, public sector, watson
A 15 minute documentary about using the internet to engage with communities. There are public meetings taking place every day in your area and your members and officers are not attending. The meetings are taking place on the internet and the community is organising itself online. New leaders are emerging and existing community leaders are [...]
Need and the Opportunity of Choice- Digital Inclusion by 2012?
Posted: 21st September 2009 by Paul Hadley in MASocial media tools such as Twitter, live-bloging, Facebook, Youtube, FriendFeed and other social networking applications have become big news as they rapidly transform the media in real-time. The immediate nature and rapid growth in popularity of these tools are re-enforcing brands, and assisting organisations and government to find relevant ways to interact and communicate with [...]
07 Clive Dutton
Posted: 15th September 2009 by Paul Hadley in BP50Tags: Birmingham, Birmingham Post Power 50, Clive Dutton, Newham, Olympics, video
On Friday 11th July, I was invited to interview Clive Dutton OBE. Clive is the Director of Planning and Regeneration at Birmingham City Council. He has been in post since February 2005, and with the original remit to “shake things up”- he’s certainly fulfilled the brief. Filmed on the 25th floor of Alpha Tower, Clive [...]