Recent stories from socialreporter

I'm currently doing most of my blogging about social media, e-democracy and open collaboration over at Socialreporter.com. Here's some recent items

Citizen journalism: what happens if no-one comes?
Charlie Beckett wonders whether the potential joining up of citizens and pro journalists in networked journalism will happen if most people aren't interest in active participation online.

Costs of the BBC Action Network
A Freedom of Information request by Tom Steinberg reveals costs of £1.3 million plus

E-Democracy Centre “surprised by speculation”
The director of ICELE says she is surprised by discussion around the activities of the centre, and whether it offers value for money.

Ruralnet shows how to do distributed communities
Ruralnet has revealed the results of its co-design process to re-invent its business in the open, with a demonstration at the recent Collaborate|2008 event.

Inovation needs big and small players
Director of the Innovation Exchange John Craig provides an update on progress

Social media, creativity, and open collaboration

I presented at the Creative Juice seminar, explaining why I think games, events like social innovation camp and co-design processes like that developed by Ruralnet, are important for innovative design.

I've also been experimenting with instant video to the web using Qik, at some recent events.

Comments

[Dave Briggs]

Do you think this blog is going to be retired? Or is there room for both!?

[David Wilcox]

Not sure I'll keep both blogs going ... see which way the stories fall. Anyway, I need to move socialreporter off Wordpress.com because of the limited embedding. The ruralnet Wordpess MU platform looks promising.

[Civil Design Consultant]

I have to admit - I searched on civil site design and your blog came up. I was looking more for the the civil site design that involves moving dirt and hydrology.