Who's coming on the 24th?

[Jeremy Gould]

Hi all, its been a bit quiet here lately and I'm very conscious that
we are only a week away from the first get together in Butetown.

So, to kick things off, I thought it would be worth doing two things
here.

First, ask who is planning on coming Friday week (I have a list in my
head but it would be good to get it confirmed).

Second, get everybody to introduce each other. I know some of the
people on here but not all so it would be useful if we all briefly
explained our respective backgrounds, skills and what we hope to bring
to the day.

So, with that:

I'm Jeremy. Until recently I was a civil servant geek running a web
team at the Ministry of Justice. I also spent an inordinate amount of
time over the last few years pushing the web2/ social media agenda
around Whitehall. I spent a bit of time a few years back with the
Cabinet Office helping them to produce a report that identified
opportunities for government to use social media tools. I also
organised two barcamps for government webbies (not just civil
servants, but those freelancers, consultants etc who work in and
around government). The first took place in Jan 2008 at Google, the
second a year later at the Ministry of Justice. I'm taking a bit of
time out from the work grind to spend some time with my family at the
moment.

So what do I think I can bring to the event. Primarily I'm a
connector. I like to get good people into a room and see what happens.
That's what I've been working with David on (as well as helping on the
admin for the event). Secondly, but probably less relevant for Friday
week, is as an event facilitator and manager. Given the calibre of
some of the people hopefully coming on the 24th, this is less relevant
than usual.

I'm very excited about the Digital Butetown project and the
opportunity to actually make something happen. I'm also a great fan of
David Wilcox's approach to social innvoation using gaming techniques
and I hope we can utilise some of that on the day.

I'm going to stick up here shortly a rought agenda / order of play for
the day. Its very embryonic and I would welcome not only comments but
for us to develop it collaboratively so we are all happy with it.

If you like, without imposing, I'm trying to encourage us all to get
the introductions and agenda creation part of an open space /
unconference / barcamp type event out of the way before the 24th so
that we can save time and get cracking on the day.

[Jeremy Gould]

Right, four days to go. Who's next? David? Tom?

[David Wilcox]

Hi Jeremy - thanks for the earlier kind mention, and nudge to intro

Over the years I've been a planning journalist (London Evening
Standard), consultant in regeneration and community engagement, helped
invent Groundwork Trusts and other development trusts, and since the
mid-1990s explored how to use social tech for social benefit. I'm
currently mixing those skills and enthusiasms in the role of social
reporter, and blogging as I go http://socialreporter.com

I've recently completed a NESTA-funded piece of work with co-authors
writing Social by Social - which is available online here
http://socialbysocial.com and will soon be in print, downloadable as
pdfs, and chunked up for re-mixing on a wiki. It is linked to the game
Jeremy mentions, described on our blog
http://socialbysocial.wordpress.com.

The game enables any group of people to play through the issues in an
area, how to engage different interests, and then choose a mix of tech
tools to address problems and opportunities. They can then explore
what's likely to happen over the coming months and years.

Digital Butetown is really exciting as a place to explore some of
those ideas, and hopefully make a real difference through social tech.

And a great chance to meet other enthusiasts. Thanks David and Jeremy.



2009/7/20 Jeremy Gould <jerem...@gmail.com>:

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> Right, four days to go. Who's next? David? Tom?
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>

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[Nick Wates]

Can’t make Cardiff on the 24th unfortunately (and not sure if invited anyway) but very interested in the whole project and in keeping in touch. I can only contribute two experiences of any relevance: a facebook group being used as the focus for a project to engage young people in an arts project in Hastings
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=56984327727

and a wiki being used as the main mechanism for developing a town design statement in Petersfield.
http://petersfield.pbwiki.com/

My main current interest is thinking how best to progress communityplanning.net. Any ideas welcome.

Hope you all have a good day on Friday.

Best regards

Nick


Nick Wates Associates 
Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson Street, Hastings TN34 1HL, England
Office: +44 (0)1424 205446 | Fax: +44 (0)1424 205401 | Mobile: +44 (0)7770 921824
http://www.nickwates.co.uk

Community planning consultants | Site editors: www.communityplanning.net

[David Barrie]

Jeremy,

In answer to your question as to who's attending, I have the following
names:

Tom Beardshaw, Native HQ
Carl Morris, Native HQ
Kelly Page, Cardiff Business School
David Barrie, David Barrie & Associates
Jeremy Gould, Whitehall Webby
David Wilcox, Social Reporter
Ed Mitchell, Ed Mitchell
Carrie Bishop, Future Gov
Shane McCracken, Gallomanor Communications
? Neil (via Tom B)
? Glyn (via Tom B)
David Roberts, igloo Regeneration
Jonathan Day, Cardiff City Council
Mike Parker, Davis Langdon
Anthony Brito, Butetown.org (def first thing)/Gavin Porter, Community
Helps Itself (def first thing)
Suma Kirshnamurthy, British Council
David Evans, British Council

my plan is to do a ring round tomorrow to confirm details etc.

D

[David Barrie]

Nick, thanks for this. You *are* of course invited. Thanks for the
links, let's fix up a chance to speak some time after though since
with everyone's agreement, I think that the initial findings of the
event this week might feed well in to and out of your work at
communityplanning.net. let me call u next week. hope all well. D

On 20 July, 10:50, Nick Wates <n...@nickwates.co.uk> wrote:
> Can¹t make Cardiff on the 24th unfortunately (and not sure if invited
> anyway) but very interested in the whole project and in keeping in touch. I
> can only contribute two experiences of any relevance: a facebook group being
> used as the focus for a project to engage young people in an arts project in

> Hastingshttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=56984327727

>
> and a wiki being used as the main mechanism for developing a town design

> statement in Petersfield.http://petersfield.pbwiki.com/

>
> My main current interest is thinking how best to progress
> communityplanning.net. Any ideas welcome.
>
> Hope you all have a good day on Friday.
>
> Best regards
>
> Nick
>
> Nick Wates Associates 
> Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson Street, Hastings TN34 1HL, England
> Office: +44 (0)1424 205446 | Fax: +44 (0)1424 205401 | Mobile: +44 (0)7770

> 921824http://www.nickwates.co.uk

>
> Community planning consultants | Site editors:www.communityplanning.net
>

[ShaneMcC]

Hello,

I'm Shane McCracken from Gallomanor.

My company has been working with local authorities for the past 8
years or so on digital events. Our I'm a Councillor event
(www.bigvote.org.uk) is in it's seventh year this year, CivicSurf
(www.civicsurf.org.uk) is 2, and we're at the start of a local website
project with Norfolk, but it's not for public viewing just yet.

I've a background in marketing and publishing (PC magazines).

I've no idea what's happening on Friday, but I shall be there to
contribute as I can.

Thanks,

Shane

[Carrie Bishop]

Hi all

I'm Carrie. I work with FutureGov (http://futuregovconsultancy.com -
some of you may know Dominic Campbell of FutureGov); I also work on
Vendor Relationship Management (http://www.vrmhub.net); and I'm
involved in a social innovation project called MyPolice (http://
mypolice.wordpress.com/).

I'm really looking forward to Friday and the chance to think a bit
differently about networks on and offline. I tend to lean towards a
facilitation type role but happy to chip in as needed! I'm also keen
to think about how this session will feed into the next.

See you all on Friday!

Carrie

http://twitter.com/carriebish
http://carriebish.wordpress.com
http://futuregovconsultancy.com
http://futuregovnetwork.com

[David Barrie]

Wil Stephens, CEO of cross-platform producer Cube Interactive is
likely to attend PM.

http://www.cubeinteractive.co.uk

[Tomsk]

Hey all, I'm Tom
I work with Carl Morris as NativeHQ - we do digital/social web
strategy for a number of projects, PR, design and web agencies.
We work with clients like the National Theatre Wales, the Welsh
Assembly and small businesses. Co-founded Trydan (Cardiff's Tuttle
club/social media gang) and generally look
I've also been working on family/gender issues for years, doing stuff
on dads - and running dad.info - an info portal for new dads.
Been involved in human network development for many years,
anthropology background, South Africa, protest movements in the UK,
family/gender issue networks etc.
Handy on a computer since the ZX81 I had as a 10 year old, so very
excited about current web technologies and direction.
Looking forward to getting stuck into a paractical project with some
keen minds - Butetown is a tough nut to crack in terms of social
development and integration, but it should be fun to do.
Tom

[edmit...@gmail.com]

Hi Jeremy, et al,

Thanks for pulling us together; I'm really looking forward to meet you all - it looks like there's a bunch of us from different perspectives coming together to have an productive and practical conversation around human beings, life, networks, events, integrating web and local community (specifically butetown) for specific purposes. Sounds good to me.

I will be on the 08:21 train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff.

Sorry to appear so late, but I've not been checking the gmail stuff recently and all these group mails have been going there. Duh. All this technology stuff; so many fragments to tend to; how do we do it? Anyway; moving on.

My name is Ed; I live in Bristol.

Life-wise I like climbing, camping, walking, running, jumping in rivers, growing vegetables and enjoying quiet pints of ale with friends in my local pub. Music is good to; last week I saw the two front men of a band called Gomez play an acoustic set in a tiny room which was utterly brilliant, and then got to visit the infamous 'Glade' gathering where I saw and heard the biggest speaker stack I think I have ever seen in my life. From one extreme to another. The last book I read which made me go ooh was The Shipping News and I thought that the latest Star Trek was rubbish. Top of my todo list right now is to plumb in the water drum to the guttering.

Work-wise:

I have just finished a six month consultatation to produce recommendations with http://www.transitiontowns.org - helping them ascertain what it is they want/need from the web in as open a manner as possible. This involved working with a rapidly growing bottom up community movement doing workshops, interviews, surveys, online fora, blogs, wikis, conferences and finally a board meeting. It was all good and done in open. Full results, reports, presentations, data etc. can be downloaded from (file sections) here: http://www.tinyurl.com/twg-recommendations (CC licence please share). I have also put together a website brief for them so I do IA, web production, briefings etc.

Since then I have been working with Bristol City Council, training online facilitators for an EC online consultation research project, done some simple bloggy stuff with http://bioblitzbristol.wordpress.com' (a great new science and society engagement project) and have been putting up marquees (I like a bit of physical face to face stuff amid the web buzz-pokery; there's nothing like a long stint of manual labour in the rain to give you some thinking time). I also designed and ran an innovation workshop in Watershed Bristol for BBC Learning http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/2009/07/02/event-report-bbc-learning/ which was great fun. I'm a big fan of using the web to extend the reach of events where suitable, and a grumpy blighter when it's not! Context is all.

I am also part of setting up my local Transition Towns community group (http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk); I'm doing the web stuff and facilitating our open meetings, and advise Transition Bristol (http://www.transitionbristol.net) on their web stuff as we move to a more complicated website (anyone help me with adding second level navigation onto wordpress categories please?). And some other charity bits in Bristol.

I'm on a panel at the Big Green Gathering Festival in a week or two discussing using social media to support bottom up social movements effectively and suitably; I am *not* a believer in waving social media around as the panacea to all our social ills; that strikes me as techno-fix. Time and time again I see rows break out in online spaces between people who would not be having the same problems face to face; we need to find the balance and it's going to take a lot of work on the ground, together. See some of the wonderful stuff the Knowle West Media Centre are doing in Bristol (http://www.kwmc.org.uk).

My core belief is in re-localisation to support community resilience via regular physical gathering - the web fits into that as and when suitable.

(I just had a cup of coffee by the way; sorry to ramble!)

Right then - see you all on Friday, looking forward to it,

best,
Ed

[Jeremy Gould]

One things for sure, its a pretty heavyweight castlist. Looking
forward to it very much.

On Jul 22, 10:02 am, edmitta...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Jeremy, et al,
>
> Thanks for pulling us together; I'm really looking forward to meet you all  
> - it looks like there's a bunch of us from different perspectives coming  
> together to have an productive and practical conversation around human  
> beings, life, networks, events, integrating web and local community  
> (specifically butetown) for specific purposes. Sounds good to me.
>
> I will be on the 08:21 train from Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff.
>
> Sorry to appear so late, but I've not been checking the gmail stuff  
> recently and all these group mails have been going there. Duh. All this  
> technology stuff; so many fragments to tend to; how do we do it? Anyway;  
> moving on.
>
> My name is Ed; I live in Bristol.
>
> Life-wise I like climbing, camping, walking, running, jumping in rivers,  
> growing vegetables and enjoying quiet pints of ale with friends in my local  
> pub. Music is good to; last week I saw the two front men of a band called  
> Gomez play an acoustic set in a tiny room which was utterly brilliant, and  
> then got to visit the infamous 'Glade' gathering where I saw and heard the  
> biggest speaker stack I think I have ever seen in my life. From one extreme  
> to another. The last book I read which made me go ooh was The Shipping News  
> and I thought that the latest Star Trek was rubbish. Top of my todo list  
> right now is to plumb in the water drum to the guttering.
>
> Work-wise:
>
> I have just finished a six month consultatation to produce recommendations  

> withhttp://www.transitiontowns.org- helping them ascertain what it is  

> they want/need from the web in as open a manner as possible. This involved  
> working with a rapidly growing bottom up community movement doing  
> workshops, interviews, surveys, online fora, blogs, wikis, conferences and  
> finally a board meeting. It was all good and done in open. Full results,  
> reports, presentations, data etc. can be downloaded from (file sections)  

> here:http://www.tinyurl.com/twg-recommendations(CC licence please share).  

> I have also put together a website brief for them so I do IA, web  
> production, briefings etc.
>
> Since then I have been working with Bristol City Council, training online  
> facilitators for an EC online consultation research project, done some  

> simple bloggy stuff withhttp://bioblitzbristol.wordpress.com'(a great new  

> science and society engagement project) and have been putting up marquees  
> (I like a bit of physical face to face stuff amid the web buzz-pokery;  
> there's nothing like a long stint of manual labour in the rain to give you  
> some thinking time). I also designed and ran an innovation workshop in  
> Watershed Bristol for BBC Learning  http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/2009/07/02/event-report-bbc-learning/ 

> which was great fun. I'ma big fan of using the web to extend the reach of  

> events where suitable, and a grumpy blighter when it's not! Context is all.
>
> I am also part of setting up my local Transition Towns community group  
> (http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk);I'm doing the web stuff and  
> facilitating our open meetings, and advise Transition Bristol  
> (http://www.transitionbristol.net) on their web stuff as we move to a more  
> complicated website (anyone help me with adding second level navigation  
> onto wordpress categories please?). And some other charity bits in Bristol.
>
> I'm on a panel at the Big Green Gathering Festival in a week or two  
> discussing using social media to support bottom up social movements  
> effectively and suitably; I am *not* a believer in waving social media  
> around as the panacea to all our social ills; that strikes me as  
> techno-fix. Time and time again I see rows break out in online spaces  
> between people who would not be having the same problems face to face; we  
> need to find the balance and it's going to take a lot of work on the  
> ground, together. See some of the wonderful stuff the Knowle West Media  
> Centre are doing in Bristol (http://www.kwmc.org.uk).
>
> My core belief is in re-localisation to support community resilience via  
> regular physical gathering - the web fits into that as and when suitable.
>
> (I just had a cup of coffee by the way; sorry to ramble!)
>
> Right then - see you all on Friday, looking forward to it,
>
> best,
> Ed
>

[drkel...@googlemail.com]

Dear All,

I hope everyone is well and smiling! I am smiling alot as this morning
I did the last proof read of a report for this project, developed from
the analysis of over 1000 surveys David and Jeremy collected on youth
from Butetown about their access to and use of digital technologies.
It's taken a bit to put together, alot of coding, editing ... but
hopefully it will in the least give us a snapshot of youth digital
activities in this geographic area yo start the ball rolling
tomorrow.

I'll let David and Jeremy upload the report and tell you more about
it!

To introduce myself, my name is Dr. Kelly Page, I am officially a
lecture at Cardiff Business School, where I research the Psychology of
Technology Adoption, Use and Usability, usually within a marketing/
community context. I also deliver programs, and talks on digital
marketing, corporate web communications, social web and marketing
research. As part my research, I've been develop a research initiative
at Cardiff called: CASE Insights (http://www.caseinsights.com), which
explores the evolution of marketing activities and behaviour through
technology with the application of case methodologies.

My university profile can be found here http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/faculty/pageskl/index.html

twitter: drkellypage
twitter: caseinsights
email: ke...@caseinsights.com
email: drkel...@gmail.com

I look forward to meeting everyone tomorrow.
Smiles
Kelly

> > withhttp://www.transitiontowns.org-helping them ascertain what it is  

> > they want/need from the web in as open a manner as possible. This involved  
> > working with a rapidly growing bottom up community movement doing  
> > workshops, interviews, surveys, online fora, blogs, wikis, conferences and  
> > finally a board meeting. It was all good and done in open. Full results,  
> > reports, presentations, data etc. can be downloaded from (file sections)  

> > here:http://www.tinyurl.com/twg-recommendations(CClicence please share).  

> > I have also put together a website brief for them so I do IA, web  
> > production, briefings etc.
>
> > Since then I have been working with Bristol City Council, training online  
> > facilitators for an EC online consultation research project, done some  

> > simple bloggy stuff withhttp://bioblitzbristol.wordpress.com'(agreat new  

> > science and society engagement project) and have been putting up marquees  
> > (I like a bit of physical face to face stuff amid the web buzz-pokery;  
> > there's nothing like a long stint of manual labour in the rain to give you  
> > some thinking time). I also designed and ran an innovation workshop in  
> > Watershed Bristol for BBC Learning  http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/2009/07/02/event-report-bbc-learning/ 
> > which was great fun. I'ma big fan of using the web to extend the reach of  
> > events where suitable, and a grumpy blighter when it's not! Context is all.
>
> > I am also part of setting up my local Transition Towns community group  

> > (http://www.transitionmontpelier.org.uk);I'mdoing the web stuff and