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Data, Detectives, GE2015 and Supergran

Hello, it’s me Kate Bentham here again, trying to catch up on blog post summaries. This is the summary for week 18, I think, although who really knows. Anyway a Happy Bank Holiday Monday to you. I hope you have been spending

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, communicating, conferences, cultural heritage, culture, data, democracy, digital technology, health, national government, politics, public sector, visual arts

Welcome back!

View over Newcastle 6th January 2015

And it’s our 3rd anniversary! (see last post for the stats on how many authors, views of posts etc). Thank you very much to all of you who responded to my questions about whether we keep going and evolve or

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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, communicating, exercise, family, health services, holiday, humanity, local government, mental health, newspapers, open data, patient care, photography, public relations, social media, tourism, unconferences, visual arts, working practices

There is no I in Community

A very interesting post this week from Peter Olding as he updates us about a project he’s been working on which highlights historic and ancient churches of Great Britain. Peter has realised that building a website is not enough for this project

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Posted in communities, cultural heritage, data, historic buildings and sites, maps, Religion

Hubs, Health and Happy Shoes

Week 18? Already? Well I never. It’s true that time flies when you’re enjoying yourself and this week has flown by for me because I’ve been enjoying the 11 fabulous blogs submitted. I especially liked the blog post by Karen Hart

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Hampshire publishes Aerial Photography as open data (finally!)

Mark Braggins updates us on some exciting developments on the Hampshire Hub blog. After spending the summer of 2013 working with Blom Aerofilm capturing aerial photography of Hampshire, the high resolution imagery and data is now available as open data. The

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Posted in data, digital technology, emergency planning, floods, local government, maps, open data, photography, unconferences

Drones – opportunity or threat?

I always enjoy reading blogs from Mark Braggins as he tends to introduce me to something new in the technology world, and I learn loads for reading them. This blog is no different as Mark discusses the possible opportunities and

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Posted in data, digital technology, emergency planning, ideas/innovation, unconferences

The reinvention of PR – ten thoughts

Kelly Quigley-Hicks recently attended a regional Chartered Institute of Public Relations conference, which brought together high calibre speakers with PR professionals from a wide range of agencies and organisations. In this blog Kelly shares with us her thoughts on the day

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Churchill, Lemons, Lists and Sunshine

Well, well, well, you have been busy this week. What a bumper crop of blogs you’ve kindly submitted for the rest of the world to enjoy, it’s really rather kind of you. Thanks. A couple of our bloggers took up

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Introducing Hampshire Hub

This week Mark Braggins updates us on the Hampshire Hub, which is a collaboration of partners including local authorities, police, fire, armed forces and others to be open by default and that any information shared will be available under open licence.

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Shotgun wedding

After larking about in the countryside dressed in tweed, shooting at clay pigeons, Ross Wigham reflects on a time when some PR campaigns might have taken a scatter gun approach to hitting the target but now, with reduced budgets and

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Posted in budget cuts, communicating, data, digital technology, ideas/innovation, journalism, local government, media, public relations, public sector, social media, working practices
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