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Knowledge Hub Advisory Group

Knowledge Hub Advisory Group

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The second meeting of the Knowledge Hub Advisory Group took place yesterday, 7th December. ( For some background to the Knowledge Hub see previous posting). It was regretable that we didn’t get more attendees from local authorities, but those who did manage to attend were involved in some excellent workshop sessions aimed at teasing out their vision for how the Knowledge Hub would deliver efficiency and performance improvements for the local government sector. This was a valuable exercise because we…

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Managing Beyond Web 2.0 – MkKinsey Article

Managing Beyond Web 2.0 – MkKinsey Article

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A recent McKinsey & Co article advocates that organisations should start preparing now for when Web 2.0 morphs into Web 3.0.  The article doesn’t really expand on what it means by ‘Web 3.0’, but there are a few useful nuggets, such as: Using social networks to listen to what customers are saying (read ‘citizens’ for public sector organisations) Rather than pushing messages at consumers (citizens), isten to them and think constantly about ways to activley engage with them. Experiment with…

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Knowledge Hub – part 1

Knowledge Hub – part 1

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This is the first opportunity I’ve had to write anything about the Knowledge Hub (Khub) Advisory Group meeting that took place last week (17th September) in London, though a number of my colleagues have been pretty active in the blogosphere and twitterverse on the topic. In particular I found Ingrid Khoeler’s post pretty much spot on and wondered if indeed if I had anything more to say on the topic. Well, clearly yes, because I’ve started this post! Maybe I…

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Knowledge 2.0 for local government

Knowledge 2.0 for local government

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I’ve recently signed up to LocalGovCamp, an ‘unconference’ for local government. Taking place on 20 June 2009, at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. If there is the time and the interest, I am hoping to run a session on a major new initiative to bring new thinking about how good/best practice is developed and shared across the local government sector. Tired and dusty knowledge repositories have had their day. The new breed of social networking and social media tools offer…

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