January 31, 2010
Some links for you: Times Higher Education – How not to write a PhD thesis – "Here are my ten tips for failing a PhD. If you want failure, this is your road map to getting there." – very good (via D'Log I think) Capsule Blog » Engaging regional audiences – how do we do [...]
January 27, 2010
Some links for you: SOCIAL MEDIA: Your EIGHT step guide to getting started& « The Dan Slee Blog – Very useful: "This blog post was inspired by #ukgc10s local government hug session where one person asked for help in how to get started with social media. Some good pieces of advice came out. Here are [...]
January 22, 2010
Some links for you: local-data.gov.uk « Policy and Performance – Ingrid Koehler on local data: "there are some good reasons for opening up. There are efficiency gains – we can rationalise data middle-men and re-interpreters and stop paying for having data thrown back at us (except where it adds real value). We can eliminate much [...]
January 21, 2010
Just to note that I’ve got an article in the current issue of Creative Industries Journal: ‘Issues in Developing an Audio-Visual Cluster in the West Midlands’. Here’s the abstract: The uptake of clusters as a model with which to develop regional economies has been variable since the UK government first issued advice to regional development [...]
January 15, 2010
Some links for you: Local innovation: collecting examples of best practice – Social by Social – "I'm writing a short pamphlet for IDeA and NESTA explaining the practical benefits of social media for councils and their partners. It's intended to be quick and easy to digest and show council officers how social media and other [...]
January 14, 2010
I’ve taken over the reins at Bournville News for the duration and one of the things I did recently was to produce a map of gritting routes for the area (idea nicked from Northwood Local): View Bournville and surrounds – gritting routes in a larger map Now I’m not all that sure that in the [...]