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Fellow social reporter Dave Briggs has detailed his event reporting toolkit, with an undisguised enthusiasm for Wordpress and Ning, together with Twitter, and Huddle to get organised. Like me he’s looking for an aggregator, because both Pageflakes and Netvibes have problems. more

The other day I was discussing social reporting and other online activities for a £300-ticket, two-day event with the organiser, and he said: “Next year we are going to have to make it free”.<>It really brought home to me how much the way that events are organised and priced is being changed by two</>... more

<>Next Monday and Tuesday I’m part of the social reporting team at the National Digital Inclusion Conference in London, and thinking I should write a piece on the benefits SR can bring. Fortunately fellow reporter Clare White has done it already, over on the digital engagement network we have linke</>... more

<>The RSA is breathing fresh life into exploration of the relationship between two issues - digital inclusion and social capital - with a seminar tomorrow launched by a paper from Will Davies on The Social Value of Digital Networks in Deprived Communities. The paper will be available at some point </>... more

<>Yesterday I went along to a meeting that, on the face of it, was about how UK local government and public agencies might share knowledge in future. Limited interest? No, because it generated a discussion touching on how far all citizens might have access to much “official” information; the impact</>... more

What’s the next big thing in local government knowledge management? I could do with some help on this topic because tomorrow I’m running a workshop at the big annual KM event run by the Ark Group - KIMPS09 - and I’m not a specialist in the topic.<>The invite to contribute came in months back - cour</>... more

Carl Haggerty, who does terrific work in Devon County Council helping staff use social media for internal networking, is also promoting digital engagement in the  community.<>He has just posted the neatest explanation I’ve seen of how to use social reporting of offline events to promote wider engag</>... more