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Social Media in Government

July 21st, 2010

Homer and Bart need to set up a hyperlocal site in Springfield

How often do you see Bart, or Homer, online in the Simpsons? Not that often. Sounds like a trite point, but bear with me. Their hometown of Springfield – founded in 1796 by Hans Sprungfeld who travelled west to found the New Sodom – is surely the best known, most perfectly sealed open society in history (totalitarian hell holes like Hox...(read more)

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June 28th, 2010

Here’s a synopsis I cobbled together to explain about the engagement site I’m developing for local government

The local govt stakeholder engagement network is a secure video-based communications hub accessible to all staff, providers and users of services. The programme opens a direct video dialogue between: • directors • frontline staff • providers • service users It abolishes silos between departments, teams, services and communities. It...(read more)

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June 28th, 2010

At Out of the Box I glimpsed a future that will work

“I’ve seen the future and it works,” wrote American journalist Lincoln Steffens in a spurt of evangelical zeal after visiting the infant Soviet Russia in 1919. Poor deluded Lincoln, we all know how that turned out don’t we? Nevertheless, a few days ago at an event no less evangelical in its attempts to change how people live, I glimpsed a future...(read more)

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CareKnowledge user group

July 12th, 2010

Person-Centred Care in Scotland

Social Services Research Group Scotland held an event in June at CoSLA HQ in Edinburgh - 'Person-Centred Care: the effective use and dissemination of Knowledge' (you can see the flyer here. I was at the event, which provided an interested range of underpinning r...(read more)

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May 12th, 2010

SDS, Direct Payments, Bruce Forsythe and Biscuits

This morning I was at a workshop at Suffolk Family Carers in Claydon, which looked at Self Directed Support and Direct Payments. Chris Pyburn and David Pintilie from Suffolk Adult and Community Directorate led the workshop, which included an overview from David on the policy background, and also a look at the latest Needs Assessment Questionnaire. ...(read more)

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May 3rd, 2010

Personal Budgets – the board game.

I was in Suffolk last week at a meeting of their SDS Implementation Network. Chris Pyburn, whom we're working with on the Suffolk Stakeholder Engagement project, had set up in the corner a board game produced by In Control. 'My Life, My Budget', is, according to In Control, 'a fun and interactive, cool and colourful board game for people with learn...(read more)

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The NTA User Group

A word from the NTA

Jez Stannard, Programme Manager at the NTA talks about the Rehab Online project and how he feels it went. [vimeo 11833428]...(read more)

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Feedback on including dual diagnosis in the advanced search

We've had some feedback that some visitors to the Rehab Online site would find it helpful to be able to search using "dual diagnosis" as a criterion in the advanced search. In terms of the numbers of projects that do this, these are the numbers: Total no of projects: 123 Projects that accept dual diagnosis: 94 Projects that do not accept du...(read more)

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Rehab Online – some more tweaks

Rehab Online has now been live for a month, and seems to be getting quite good traffic, as well as some really good feedback. I am looking at some more tweaks to the search, to make it easier to use, and I'd appreciate some feedback from you. We've made a couple of changes to the current advanced search page: (read more)