Events

Would you like more digital engagement knowledge-sharing events?

  • April 27, 2010 at 1:52 pm
  • Categories: Digital engagement,Events,Ramblings,Research sharing

  • Well, the pilot digital engagement discussions are over. Should we do more? I only organised three and still haven’t managed to blog about two of them yet. Still, they were good: Simon Whitehouse talked about ‘Policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey‘ and Ordnance Survey OpenData, I looked at the Hansard Society’s recent report [...]

Socitim’s ‘Better Connected 2010′ report: what did it say? Join the discussion at Moseley Exchange

  • April 25, 2010 at 11:52 am
  • Categories: Digital engagement,Events,Research sharing

  • A few weeks ago Socitm released their Better Connected 2010 report on the quality of local council websites. Stuart Harrison has read the report, and in the last of our pilot digital engagement discussions he will share its insights and his thoughts on them. Socitm is the membership association for ICT professionals in Local Authorities [...]

Ruby on Rails beginners club in Birmingham: are you interested?

  • April 22, 2010 at 1:00 pm
  • Categories: Birmingham,Events

  • For months I’ve been having conversations with people about how we should set up a Rails beginners group in Birmingham, so now I’m actually going to do it. I realise that even among beginners there will be a wide range of expertise levels. Therefore I ask attenders to have at least started trying to write [...]

Museums at Night 2009

  • May 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm
  • Categories: Culture,Events,Fun stuff

  • Museums at Night 2009 will bring together museums, galleries and heritage sites with a range of special evening events. I promised to plug this, so here goes. Over the weekend of 15, 16 and 17 May, museums across the country will be running a range of fun events in the evening. There will be ‘tours [...]