I am extremely pleased again to be involved with BlueLightCamp for its second year. Once again, I will be helping to bring BlueLightCamp to a wider world. BlueLightCamp is a fabulous event, bringing together people working in emergency services with
Things are hotting up at BlueLightCamp
So BlueLightCamp is quickly approaching and things are hotting up for the organisers. We love this, really we do! We are finalising sponsors at present so that we can sort what we can provide to you over the two day
Simpl Challenges for BlueLightCamp
With more and more camps, hacks and other open innovation get-togethers taking place around the country, the FutureGov team spotted a need for an online platform to host the call out for ideas that takes place before many of these
Learning Pool Proud Sponsors of BlueLightCamp 2013
This is a guest post by one of our fab sponsors: Learning Pool We’re very pleased at Learning Pool to help support BlueLightCamp again this year. In 2012, around a hundred people took part in this landmark emergency services event,
BlueLight Camp: Post of posts
Planning for BlueLight Camp 2013 is well under way, and more information will be published about the event on the BlueLightCamp site shortly. In the meantime, I thought it worth highlighting some of the articles written about the first BlueLight
A Blue Light on the horizon
A month or so ago I blogged: Reflections on Events, in which I looked back at some of the events I’ve attended over the last couple of years. I suggested some ‘tweaks’ for organisers, and how physical attendees might help improve
Unconferences: Good, Bad or Ugly?
This is the second part of a joint effort by Sasha Taylor and Mark Braggins. In this post we talk about two topics we’re finding difficult to keep entirely separate: #lgovsm (a weekly chat on Twitter for Local Gov social media
From John Smeaton to #hurricanebawbag
I said I’d share the findings of my Masters dissertation so here goes. The post is a bit long but hey ho, I’m sure you’ll all cope. The research investigates the use of social media by journalists and emergency responders in
Before Social Media Comes the Community
The value of social media and enterprise social networking is all about the community, it’s people that drive mass collaboration, not technology. I was thinking about this as the BlueLightCamp unconference in Manchester was kicking off. Here I was in the middle
BlueLightCamp: Weekend Camping (Pt1) [via markbraggins]
First thing in the morning on Sunday 15th April there was barely a cloud in the sky above Manchester. The sun shone, the sky was blue, and I was off camping. It was a few miles walk to the camp
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