Archive for the ‘Engagement Education’ Category

Commonwealth in the networked economy [2]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4475" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Overcapacity results in a bailout of General Motors to the tune of $50billion"][/caption]Last December the boss of Fiat, Sergio Marchionne, predicted that the economic crisis would finally force the world’s car industry to confront profit-destroying overcapacity ...

Literacy in the networked society

Monday, September 14th, 2009As we migrate from the industrial world to the nectworked society - many argue we need a new literacy to help us on our way.[caption id="attachment_4405" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pldms/2553479524/"][/caption]Euan posted this on his blog last week via Clive Thompson via ...

The axeness of an axe

Friday, September 11th, 2009You've gotta love that headline. Sadly I did not write that headline but leonora did from Treehugger,The axeness of an axe? What on earth does that mean I hear you ask? Well it's about starting with the essence of something, ...

When the shit hits the fan its time to innovate

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Today, I was in a webinar with Euan Semple. He raised some very profound points concerning innovation and therefore creativity. Author Alan Bennett, once wrote that ordinary people can be instruments of the  sublime when a situation arises which they ...

Don’t just stand there Do something!!!

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Last week I was in Wales and met up with my old friend Dave Hieatt the co-founder of the extraordinary company HowiesI say extraordinary, as David and is wife Claire built the company with a belief and point of view ...

networked education for a networked society drives commerce

Monday, August 17th, 2009We don't prize thinking in this country. We are suspicious of the intellectual; it's almost as if we believe too much thinking is not a good thing.Writes, Peter Hyman a deputy head teacher at a London comprehensive.He goes onto articulate ...

Literacies for the 21st Century

Friday, August 7th, 2009The word Empire was a mental framework, philosophy that spawned its own literacy. The industrial revolution did the same thing, as did the mass consumer, mass media world. War too brings its own literacy and mental framework, from; WW2, to ...

Mobile engagement for local authorities

Thursday, August 6th, 2009I picked this up from the Linkedin Group on mobile content:How can local government make savings and improve services? The answer, is mobile communications.If “Quantitative Easing” is out of the question, how can local councils cope with a burden of ...

Social media but an element of Engagement

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Tim Harrap, very kindly pointed me to lessons learn't in social media by Dirk Shaw, (Great name)Its good sound advice, common sense and obviously hard won. My view however is that Engagement as a principal co-joins social media with other ...

For those about to rock – we salute you

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009The 100 best blogs that are interested in and devoted to the idea of change for a better societyVia the FutureGov network

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