Briefing for the Amplified Leicester group at a workshop on March 12 2010. More on Amplified Leicester http://amplifiedcity.typepad.com/leicester/

1. Thinking about Amplification - and where next for people and places David Wilcox

2. Amplified people Amplified places Leicester experience What’s happening elsewhere Cultures Networks Challenges Activities People using new tools to do things in different ways in their places How can we make sense of Amplified, explain to our visitors - and apply to their place Stories

3. What I’m seeing around the country - online Lots of community blogs and networking sites ... and council sites News, campaigns, discussion, videos, audio, feeds, maps, voting More at http://socialbysocial.net and http://localcommunities.w ikispaces.com

4. What I’m seeing - offline at events Civil servants, activists, officers, developers collaborating, self -organising ... different ways of learning, collaborating Social media surgeries Using video, blogs, Twitter for reporting Exploring co-production

5. Clouds of conversation

7. From my iPhone My (amplied) role - social reporter

8. What do you think an Amplified individual needs? Then we’ll look at Amplified place