Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics
Ingrid Koehler wants to know what the Key questions about local government and social media are.
Her list is:
What are the greatest areas of potential benefit in councils using social media?
How can councils support local communities and individuals in becoming digitally enabled and empowered?
How can local and hyper-local social networks increase community cohesion and empowerment.
How can [...]
Three articles have caught my eye over the weekend:
Wikipedia and the law: The libel laws haven’t yet caught up with the existence of Wikipedia. This is a problem – and it offers a huge advantage to those with the means to use lawyers to intimidate. The article itself is short and to-the-point, but Padraig Reidy [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? Picture Credits.
Engaging with articulate commenters
I started my blog, Slugger O’Toole in early June 2002 purely as a research tool for a paper I was planning to write on the future of Unionism in Northern Ireland. At the time, I was still trying to assemble the writing team and hadn’t even approached a funding body.
Of course I didn’t need funding to [...]