Citizen as e-data owners – the power to transform the citizen/state relationship
November 27, 2011 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, Management & Innovation, News posts, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Public Involvement, Research, Social networking
“All hospitals used social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube” Can this be true? Well not in the UK. The figures come from research done by the US-based Society for Participatory Medicine. They took a look at 14 top-ranked US hospitals and the variety of uses is an instructive...
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Request for Geek Bearing Gifts
August 25, 2011 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Active citizens, Consultation, Management & Innovation, News posts, Organisational Innovation, Public Involvement, Social networking
Raw Data – Tough to Chew
This is what happens when geeks start to play with data and map the blogosphere. This is just showing links and connections as well as indicating apparently how much certain topic areas are addressed. I found this on a website run by a Malcolm Hurst who works for MSN and...
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The Wisdom of Cows – choosing leaders the Swiss way
June 15, 2009 by Colin Adamson
Filed under News posts, Organisational Innovation, Public Involvement, Social networking
The news of Andy Hornby ‘s appointment to Boots was of course the cue for the digital cuttings file to be raided for lots of images of him being abused by Parliamentarians. How could this man so recently discredited, rise again so soon to head up one of our great British businesses? How can this...
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Engaging Health & Social Care Communities Online
December 5, 2008 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Clients, Local Involvement Network, News posts, NHS, Social Care, Social networking
Just published on the main Moore Adamson Craig site – a case history of building the website for the Wandsworth LINk: Engaging Health & Social Care Communities Online – setting up a website for Local Involvement Networks (opens as Adobe PDF file). Read More →
September Re-entry (September newsletter)
September 18, 2008 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Clients, Local Involvement Network, News posts, Newsletters, NHS, Organisational Innovation, Social networking
The title of the newsletter would sound better in French: ‘la rentrée’ – a season in France when the State re-awakens after its long summer off and the supermarkets are filled with bargain notebooks and pens – the ones that are all squares and no lines. It is much more than ‘back...
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Insert your LINk link now – the NHS is on Facebook
August 26, 2008 by Colin Adamson
Filed under Local Involvement Network, News posts, NHS, Public Involvement, Social networking
The lead article in the HSJ of 18th August looked at how NHS organisations are using this Web 2.0 social networking site to connect with patients, staff, Government ministers and the public.
Some are using it to tell people more about the personal side of their lives. We are told that the Health Secretary...
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