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dave briggs

Kettering

I am an independent consultant acting as a digital enabler for public and third sector organisations in the UK. I help people decide what they need to do with the social web, and then equip them with the skills and tools they require to succeed.

Before setting out on my own, I worked in the public sector in a variety of roles culminating in a stint at the Learning and Skills Council in online stakeholder and community management.

Here's some stuff I can do:

  • Strategy - helping organisations figure out exactly what they ought to be doing with the web to achieve their goals, using workshops, games, demonstrations and other fun stuff - and blending that approach with offline activities
  • Training - to teams, groups, and individuals on how to use social media tools, whether it is setting up a wiki for a collaboration project or starting up a blog
  • Content creation - I can be a blogger for hire, or help produce video and audio content for online distribution
  • Building things - I’m a dab hand at putting sites together whether blogs, wikis, community sites, or traditional websites, and if I can’t do something I generally know someone who can

dave briggs is at home at http://davepress.net.

Recently, dave briggs...

  • created LocalGovCamp over 2 years ago.

    Following the success of the recent Barcamp for UK Government, a local government specific version is being planned - it's likely to be taking place on a Saturday in June, 2009, and will almost certainly be held in Birmingham. A blog has been set up where more details can be found. The event will be free to attend and anyone in local governmet is welcome to come along. I thought it worth raising here in case anyone from local government outside the UK is reading, because it would be really ...

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  • commented on New site launched - Power to the People! over 3 years ago.

    I think most people prefer to write short, general comments on stuff rather than changing the actual text, which is why wiki white papers often don't work so great - unless a team of committed individuals is working on it. As you say, wikis are quite good for listing resources, good practice, etc. I started one for UK local gov here.

  • tagged New site launched - Power to the People! with the tag Collaboration over 3 years ago.

  • commented on New site launched - Power to the People! over 3 years ago.

    Mitch - you're spot on with that observation. Collaboration online is so hard to do, even when you have a bunch of online enthusiasts involved. Here's what I reckon: make the barriers to entry in terms of submitting content as low as possible. This is what I have tried to do at Digital Mentor. People can email, comment on blog posts, use their own blog, add to a wiki, bookmark in delicious... and I'm doing the curating job, bringing it all together, making sure everyone knows what is going o...

  • created Digital Mentors over 3 years ago.

    A new site has been created to help a group of collaborators to work on the development of the role of Digital Mentors, which was raised by the UK government department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) in their white paper in 2008, Communities in Control. The white paper stated of the digital mentors: Government will pilot a ‘Digital Mentor’ scheme in deprived areas. These mentors will support groups to develop websites and podcasts, to use digital photography and on...

  • commented on Organising without Organisations over 3 years ago.

    I found Here Comes Everybody a pretty interesting read, though felt I had certainly got the message about halfway through. Maybe I'm not really the target audience for the book, already being a convert to this stuff, as you know! What this, and some of the other books on th subject, is really useful for is the examples of where this approach has worked which can be used to try and convince managers in government etc that this really is the way to go. The organising without organisations con...

  • created Unlocking the Power of Local Government Information over 3 years ago.

    The Power of Information Taskforce has shared some great advice on their blog for local authorities to help them share their data with people who want to do interesting stuff with it. It includes making it clear to folk exactly what they can do with the data, using a single common licence to reduce confusion and recommends the use of the PSI’s ‘Click-use‘ licence. This is rather timely, as The Open Knowledge Foundation is holding a workshop on ‘Finding and Re-using P...

  • commented on New site launched - Power to the People! over 3 years ago.

    Love the new site, Paul. Sleek and simple to use. Excellent! Out of interest, what has happened to some of the old content, like the wiki stuff?