On your feet, soldier!

On Wednesday I gave a presentation which was coherent and informative, and yet made up partly while I was listening to someone else’s but mostly in response to questions from the audience as I was speaking. Whenever I’ve given presentations before, I’ve mumbled incoherently as I drowned in my own nervousness. So throwing me in the deep end is perhaps the way to get good presentations out of me. (Peter, don’t you dare!) Continue reading →

Put yourself on the map: complete the Workforce Mapping Project survey

(With thanks to Hazel Hall for almost all of the words below.)

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The Workforce Mapping Project survey is live at http://bit.ly/workforcemap

This is a call to workers in the library, archives, records, information, and knowledge management sector to contribute to a research project by completing a short survey. If you work in this sector, please read on to learn more about the project and how you can contribute to it. Continue reading →

News!

New news

I’m taking part in a digital democracy panel discussion, hosted by the Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy.

Old news 1

Community council location-finder: the subject of most posts on this blog so far

Old news 2

Emergent ICT strategies for local democracy: capturing innovation: updating the survey of CC websites we did in 2012. What has changed? What are the patterns? What are the reasons underlying the patterns?