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<>I had great fun at the SHINE09 unconference for social entrepreneurs last Friday and Saturday, first with a little light social reporting and then helping run the Social Collaboration Game, which I wrote about earlier.The social reporting was light for me because there were far more video cameras</>... 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

by Alec PattonIt’s less than a week until the Innovation In Education conference that we’re running with the Guardian, and it’s looking very exciting!<>Speakers include Larry Rosenstock, CEO of High-tech High (not a Saturday morning cartoon but a seriously innovative cluster of schools in Californi</>... more

by Alec PattonI said earlier that we’ve got a Twitter identity (InnovateEducate) and official hashtag (#iie09) for the Guardian Innovation in Education conference.So why tweet at a conference? This is how I see it:<>At the Innovation in Education conference, 300 creative, highly motivated people wi</>... more

by Alec PattonLast week, I posted about Why Twitter is Good for Conferences. Now that the conference has happened, it turns out that Twitter is much more exciting, unpredictable, and anarchic than I’d anticipated.<>To give a flavour of what it looked like, I’ve created an edited version of the twit</>... more

No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke – this is the Chain Reaction 2009 event which takes place on Thursday 12 November 2009.<>This year,  over 400 people from the worlds of business, community and government, will gather together in the heart of Canary Wharf to connect with each other, collaborat</>... more

I read a good piece by Will Hutton today in The Observer about class.<>I find class a really difficult subject to write about.  That's partly because I can hardly believe that it still matters so much.  It's also a difficult subject to write about because it's so tied up with who I am, and probably</>... more