A few posts ago we wrote about the pop video brought out in Lancashire to remind people about the elections for Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Naomi Walker, head of community engagement at Lancashire Police Authority, where the video was dreamed up as parf of the ...
It doesn't matter how important you accept the advent of the Police and Crime Commissioners are, the prospect of voting in a new political post to oversee police forces in England and Wales has hardly captured the public's attention. It's a point that's been made before, but there's a risk that, come the 15th of November, ...
On the Friday before the riots started, I was trying to write a response to Dan Slee's excellent post about how vital really good social-media communication is in an emergency. I was hoping to add a few of my own thoughts but, having got three quarters through, I stopped writing my masterpiece, thinking I’d return to it ...
As part of the work we're doing for the CRIF engagement, we've been holding a series of events - with the latest taking place last week. I thought it might be handy if I described how we've gone about the social reporting of the events... What is social reporting? This term is getting more and more popular ...
When Eric Pickles told local authorities that they should let ‘citizen journalists’ video council meetings, I imagine, for some reason, that there was a collective shudder from many in local government (if you want to know what Public-i thinks about the announcement read here). After all, as a former non-citizen journalist*, I know that my kind ...