Slides used during a workshop at the Centre for Public Scrutiny conference on 1st July 2010.

1. Community engagement through social networking
Dave Briggs
Community Evangelist
Learning Pool

2. Or: how we can use
the internet to make
scrutiny more
interesting?
(It doesn’t need to be
that confusing.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/388474284/

3. @davebriggs
dave@learningpool.com
www.davepress.net
http://www.flickr.com/photos/janetedavis/4407684366/

4. I was a scrutiny
officer once!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4622198215/

5. Five years later, I was
working at Number 10.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/downingstreet/
3045344571/

6. I think we can safely
say, then, that this
stuff works.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
89186997@N00/3396410350/

7. It’s not just a young
person’s game.

8. But be careful out
there, folks!

9. So, what is digital
engagement?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/
4373062612/

10. Cognitive surplus,
anyone?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
poptech2006/2969510044/

11. 100 million hours
200 billion hours
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maddi/2432148351/

12. £5,500
£153,516
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_Bus_Campaign

13. First up: people are
already engaging
online in your area.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/havovubu/3728604649/

14. Sheffield
Pop: 534,500
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger/9694345/

15. Sheffield forum
Total posts: 4,288,013

16. Ampthill,
Bedfordshire.
Pop: 6,767
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/785181609/

17. Around Ampthill
Total posts: 38,700

18. Secondly, you really
ought to be a part of
this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/motoyen/4393846581/

19. It’s no different than
any other kind of
engagement - it’s just
in a different medium.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyi/4745259789/

20. Quick
Cheap
Conversational
Mobile
Scalable
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
9229859@N02/1052409181/

21. Third, there’s some
things you need to
do to get cracking.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purpleslog/183842413/

22. Listen
Acknowledge
Create
Collaborate
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theory/3193684688/

23. Most importantly: go
ugly early.
(Or: release early,
release often.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/babasu/410086519/

24. Fourth, some
important things to
remember.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalart/2101765353/

25. Use existing
networks, and grow
your own too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phrenologist/3172558/

26. If you build it, people
won’t necessarily
come.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
9229859@N02/1052409181/

27. Make policy, but
keep it light.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdickert/2570185865/

28. You have your
culture, the internet
has its.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inel/1388664496/

29. Be bold.
Be relentlessly
positive.
Be human.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdegenhardt/4623915594/

30. All this in action:
letstalkcentral.com

31. Thanks for listening!
dave@learningpool.com
www.learningpool.com
www.davepress.net
@davebriggs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/
3365682994/