Adam Jennison is a guest contributor to Benjamin Welby’s blog and, therefore, to Week 21 of Weekly Blog Club.
His very interesting post is based on a talk about he gave to the Hull Digital Developer Group about open data. During it, he somewhat shocked the private sector devs with the sheer quantity of different systems used by many local governments.
Hull’s open data future by Adam Jennison on Benjamin Welby’s blog.
The second part of just one account of a small part of the amazing Late Shows, part of Museums At Night, but done the Geordie way, with added party vibes (and the magical The LateShows glowsticks, don’t forget the glowsticks!)
Just one account of experiencing a tiny part of the amazing Late Shows, the Newcastle and Gateshead Museums At Night with added sparkly bits thanks to the various public, private and Third Sector organisations involved.
Phil Jewitt starts off Week 21 of Weekly Blog Club with an interesting post about his reactions to, and how he processed his experience of, a big culture event (part of the Olympiad).
Week 20 proved to be one of the lighter weeks in number of posts, but there is more than one ‘must-read’ post amongst the nine submitted (unless I failed to spot any en route).
There was a bit of a work theme this week. Benjamin Welby’s post – Opportunity Knocks - announced that he has a new job, down in That London, working on what I what I consider to be probably the most excitingly challenging Web project in the UK at present. Good luck to Benjamin!
Kate drew a lovely picture in words with a carpenter’s pencil of her dad in Giz a Job. She shared a story from his past about her dad’s experience of getting a job when he left school, in the old days when getting a job could be less formal.
Ross Wigham, prompted by becoming an uncle for the first time, shared advice in Having babies that is based on his own experience. It is both a humorous and serious post about babies from a father’s perspective.
Feeding her baby in the middle of the night led Irena Souroup to contemplate the news and inspired her post For the Love of Brooks, an unusual view of Rebekah Brooks.
Carolyne Mitchell used her experience as a child and mother to channel Dr Seuss this week in her post Great day for blog, with apologies to Dr Seuss.
Dan Slee returned to childhood memories of a cartoon boy and his cat (who advised children to stay safe) and a more recent memory of a talk by Tom Watson as the starting point for his lively comms2point0 blog post: Charlie says here’s a history lesson to open up innovation in your organisation. Dan shares with us ‘The Management Innovation Refusal Timeline’ which puts in a more developed form an argument that many of us have employed in trying to persuade people to use and allow the use of social media.
Ignorance Isn’t Bliss was Simon Hope’s post on the same theme as underlies Dan’s, and very specifically aimed at local government people.
Matt Murray contributed a really useful blog on using the Camera+ app on an iPhone - Mobile photography with Camera+ app. His illustrates it with some of his own photographs, including a really nice one of Battersea Power Station. I have had Camera+ on my iPod Touch (which has a much worse camera than the iPhone) for ages and not used it much but Matt’s article revealed some things that I did not know so I will be
Finally, I returned to a colour theme as an online article about the use of colour when designing websites prompted me to write about something the author had forgotten, how not everyone can see: The Red and the Green.
I have already written the first of my Week 21 posts, about the first night of The Late Shows. The Late Shows are the Newcastle and Gateshead part of Museums At Night, a weekend in May when museums open late till 11pm. The Tyneside Late Shows included contemporary art, the performing arts, a tunnel, circus, a display of photographs in shipping containers, as well as museums. Perhaps the (entirely optional) Week 21 theme could be culture, or what our neighbourhoods are like in the evening,
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For the Love of Brooks by Irena Souroup.
Opportunity Knocks by Benjamin Welby.
Ignorance Isn’t Bliss by Simon Hope.
The Red and the Green by Janet E Davis.
Charlie says here’s a history lesson to open up innovation in your organisation by Dan Slee on the comms2point0 blog.
Great day for blog, with apologies to Dr Seuss by Carolyne Mitchell.
Matt Murray writes about the iPhone app Camera+ for his Week 20 post, illustrated with his own photographs. He gives tips on how to take and edit pictures, complete with screenshots of the app.
This Week 20 post is a response to an article on use of colour when designing websites, and advises on being aware of those who have colour blindness.
Piglets on board the ‘Grace Harwar,’ National Maritime Museum collection, Flickr Commons.
Bloggers contributed a baker’s dozen of posts in Week 19 of Weekly Blog Club, with topics ranging from the result of the Mayor of London election to piglets and many topics in between.
This week’s ‘sports supplement’ comes from Ross Wigham (football and a passing mention of cricket in Three golden management rules), and from Hannah Chia who covers boxing in Morally Bankrupt: Frank Warren Defends Haye-Chisora Bout.
The political section is written by Irena Souroup and covers the election of the Mayor of London, won by Boris Johnson for the second time, and considers what Boris might do next: Boris’s Blond Ambition.
The arts supplement this week focuses on the visual arts. Matt Bond has written about the shiny hardware and software required for editing and publishing videos: Part 4: The Edit. My post was on the history of an aspect of 19th century art concerned with social welfare and encouraging equality in society, and an artist who illustrated Charles Dickens’s last novel: Luke Fildes: his social realist paintings.
The people section contains a very moving post by Phil Jewitt about connecting with someone at an emotionally difficult passage in life, simply entitled Connected. Kate Bentham’s work also focuses on connecting with people, sometimes in difficult circumstances, and she considers how specific types of content can help to connect in The use of piglets in social meda.
The business section gives an insight into the work of a local government comms team in Carolyne Mitchell’s If you want something new, stop doing something old as she reports on a very full day with Walsall Council comms team. John Patterson puts forward a radical idea for management within local government (that could work in other workplaces too) in Micropost: Asset Based Staff Development. There are some useful tips for both marketing and training in Janet Harkin’s The only marketing acronym you need to know.
The literary supplement considers blogging. First-time Weekly Blog Club contributor Benjamin Welby looked at the why, what and where of public sector blogging: I believe in public sector and local government blogs. Regular contributor Mark Braggins gives a tantalising glimpse of what is to come on his blog: Backblogs and Foreblogs.
Finally, on the inside back page (the one you turn to first) is Desert island tweeps by Lesley Thomson. Who would be your Desert Island tweeps? Would you limit your choice to just three?
As always, thank you very much to both the writers and the readers of all the Weekly Blog Club posts. It is good to see the number of ‘Likes’ accumulating, and letting the writers know that you appreciate what they have written is a great way of being a member of the club.
If I have missed any posts out, do let me know. It can be difficult to pick them out from the tweetstream sometimes. Any ideas for the Week 20 (entirely optional) theme? ‘Rampant growth of weeds’ is a key topic in my mind at the moment as all the recent rain is fuelling very rapid growth in brambles and docks. I am sure that some of you will have much better ideas for a theme.
Janet
Backblogs and Foreblogs by Mark Braggins.
Desert island tweeps by Lesley Thomson.
Boris’s Blond Ambition by Irena Souroup.
Luke Fildes: his social realist paintings by Janet E Davis.
Connected by Phil Jewitt.
Three golden management rules by Ross Wigham.
I believe in public sector and local government blogs by Benjamin Welby.
Morally Bankrupt: Frank Warren Defends Haye-Chisora Bout by Hannah Chia.
The use of piglets in social meda by Kate Bentham.
Part 4: The Edit by Matt Bond.
The only marketing acronym you need to know by Janet Harkin.
If you want something new, stop doing something old by Carolyne Mitchell
Matt Bond’s contribution to Week 19 of Weekly Blog Club was the fourth part to his very useful ‘How to film…’ series, advising on the best tools for editing film.
Probably not really a Weekly Blog Club sort of post, but in case people might be a little interested…
