Tag: engagement

Is ‘gamification’ just making bad processes palatable?

  • January 22, 2012 at 11:54 am

  • I don’t like the term ‘gamification’. Maybe I’ve missed the point, but if we have to turn something into a game doesn’t that suggest it’s not fit for purpose anyway? Eight or nine years ago a man from Immersive Education introduced my colleagues and me to Kar2ouche. He explained it was the result of some Oxford [...]

Building Britain’s Digital Future: ‘a chance to reinvent deliberative democracy for the modern age’

  • March 22, 2010 at 6:01 pm

  • In response to Gordon Brown’s speech on ‘Building Britain’s Digital Future’, Ben Whitnall of Delib asked if interested parties would like to group together to take a lead: ‘let’s get some interested people together and help design the future of digital deliberative democracy for the government. It’ll be faster, better and, with any luck, more [...]

Digital Economy Bill: my email to Lynne Jones MP

  • March 18, 2010 at 11:55 am

  • I’m concerned about the Digital Economy Bill so I’ve just sent one of those standard lobbying emails to my MP. I used the online form at 38 Degrees because it was easy, but I made substantial changes to the message (I would have added more but I was in a hurry, hence the convenience of [...]

Using the internet for effective citizenship

  • March 1, 2010 at 8:45 pm

  • Today I had a post published on the British Computer Society’s Savvy Citizens website, in which I ponder the challenges and opportunities that the internet brings for effective citizenship. I won’t re-post it here, as I’m sure the BCS would much rather you read it on their blog than mine. Suffice to say I flag [...]

How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study

  • June 22, 2009 at 5:17 pm

  • The furniture shop Habitat recently made a very wobbly entrance into Twitter, by not appreciating the norms that have evolved there. Not good for a trusted brand; although even with the disgust voiced by some in the community I doubt it’s damaged their business particularly. However, the episode did spawn this blog post, which – [...]