Dave Briggs has posted details of an event being arranged on 26th February as part of the Community of Practice for Social Media & Online Collaboration. This will be of potential interest to anyone working in (or for) the public sector who is using - or thinking of using - social media/social networking applications to support improved collaboration shared learning. The event is both an opportunity to see and learn how others are applying Web 2.0 technologies in their departments and as a showcase for anyone wishing to contribute information about their pet project. I've been a member of this particular CoP since Dave started it off and can highly recommend it to anyone who is currently struggling with the breadth and scale of the technology options available to them in this particular domain. Full details of the posting here:
Members of the Community of Practice for Social Media and Online Collaboration are meeting up at the Learning and Skills Council National Office in Coventry on 26th February 2008 between 10am and 3.30pm for a day of Web 2.0 fun and frolics, including:
- The benefits of using social media in the public sector, real life examples
- Building social web sites: blogs, wikis, forums and social networks
- Making social online video
- Group discussions on where the potential is for social media to make a real difference and a "how do I?" : Matching tools to problems
- Future developments of the CoP
If you aren’t already a member of the community and you feel it would be worthwhile attending please join us here and sign up on the wiki to say you’ll come.
Thanks for mentioning it, Steve! It should be a great day.
Posted by: Dave Briggs | 16 January 2008 at 01:15 PM