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• Social Media Guidance by @govUK is my new jam
  If you follow my tweets, you’ll have seen that on Monday I was at the excellent PEP-NET (Pan-European Participation Network) summit in Hamburg. Noella Edelmann’s summary is here. One of the projects that presented was NextHamburg, who run participatory projects … Continue reading →
  
  
• Far away, so close (a belated Europe Day post)
  Yesterday was Europe Day, and in 364 days there will be another. Other than that, pretty much everything European is uncertain. At various stages during the crisis, people have quoted the Gramsci line: The crisis consists precisely in the fact that … Continue reading →
  
  
• Government logo pseudo-scandal: rent a quote, but don’t give credit
  Here’s something very annoying. The Telegraph has a story about the new Government Department logos (which I rather like), revealed by Simon Dickson at Puffbox yesterday. Does the Telegraph credit Simon’s clever spot? No. Does it mention his blog or … Continue reading →
  
  
• Media regulation: discussion event report
  Over the past few weeks, we’ve been publishing a series of posts from contributors on the topic of media regulation and democracy. On 25 April, the contributors and others gathered at the RSA to discuss their pieces and the issues … Continue reading →
  
  
• There’s more online participation than you think
  Interesting piece on the BBC Online blog about how their web team has seen participation changing, and increasing. They make six points: The model which has guided many people’s thinking in this area, the 1/9/90 rule, is outmoded. The number of … Continue reading →