Presentation to LG Comms event on 17 February 2010.

1. Digital communications: why is it crucial for local government? Dave Briggs Community Evangelist

2. @davebriggs [email_address] www.davepress.net

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5. There’s a revolution going on

6. This stuff changes lives

7. From the benefits office to Downing Street in 5 years (and a blog)

13. (that’s 1,743,281)

18. If this is crucial, we need to be serious about it

19. All this has to embedded in Process Structure Systems Strategy

20. JFDI Being boring Sustainability Activity

21. Why is all this crucial?

22. The interesting thing about this digital revolution is not the technology. It’s the implications of using it.

23. Image credit: Paul Clarke: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_clarke/

24. For organisations:

25. Listening Openness Transparency Collaboration Cooperation

26. For society:

27. Private / public Online / offline Consumption

28. Maybe the really interesting stuff about digital communications has nothing to do with external engagement at all

30. How can an organisation talk to people on the outside, when people inside aren’t talking to each other?

31. Thanks for listening!