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What should the Library of Birmingham be and do?
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I had the privilege today to put some ideas to the team building Birmingham’s new “Library of Birmingham”, which is due to open in 2013, just after (hopefully) Birmingham is announced as City of Culture.<>The building, designed by Mecanoo, has gone through several quite public debates that I won’t </>...
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A Community-generated Birmingham City Council website: BCCDIY
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We’re building an entirely community-generated website for Birmingham City Council. You can help by contributing whatever knowledge, skills or time that you have either online or by coming to our “Hack Day”, this Friday.<>I’m posting some of my reasoning and development notes in a separate post, to</>...
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Why build a new site for Birmingham City Council?
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Here’s my reasoning and some background on how/why I’ve been collaboratively putting together BCCDIY.com
<>Birmingham City Council launched their new website recently, and many people commented that it wasn’t up to scratch in terms of value for money, especially given the £2.8m price tag and the ra</>...
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BCC DIY Hack Day collected memory
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As the culmination of the first week of our community-powered effort to build our own website for Birmingham City Council, the BCC DIY Hack Day was a real show of how much an informal group of people can now achieve in a short space of time.<>This is a collection of some of the stuff that’s since b</>...
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The moment BCCDIY started
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Here’s Councillor Paul Tilsley justifying the Birmingham.gov.uk website – “We did spend a bit of money on it”. Shame you can’t see the audience, but you can hear their sharp intake of breath.<><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7eY9tjyVBYI&hl=en</>...
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Does BCCDIY risk devaluing digital marketing?
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Here’s an interesting criticism of BCCDIY – that it risks “devaluing the commercial aspects of digital marketing“. I’m not sure what that phrase means exactly, but I’m guessing it’s along the lines of ‘if you give your time away for free that devalues everyone else’. <>Here’s a comment I left on th</>...
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Calling innovators in the West Midlands
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<>Innovation Exchange wants to hear about innovative work taking place in the West Midlands around personalising social care. We’re holding a Festival of Ideas to bring together third sector innovators, public service commissioners and social investors to build relationships and support the great w</>...
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London C-all-in-g
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Some changes are afoot, and it’s high time I blogged about it. In short – I’m going to be in London doing something exciting.<>As part of the Clore programme each of us must undertake a three to four month ‘placement’ with an organisation of our choice. For instance my friend Ariane is working at C</>...
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