Chat transcript for Tuesday, 1st November 2011 (Social care)

By jacattell On November 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

At 8pm on Tuesday 1st November 2011, I kicked off a Twitter chat about social media in social care and social work.  My interest, was to see how it was being used.

To retrieve all the #lgovsm tweets, I used searchhash.com to find and download them in the text based CSV format.

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Chat summary for Tuesday, 25 October 2011 (Social media surgeries)

By lgovsm On October 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The following is a quick summary of the chat while it is still fresh in my head. If I have missed something or you feel I have misrepresented something, please correct in the comments and I will amend.

Social media surgeries involve a surgeon who listens to the patient who has something they need help [...]

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Chat transcript for Tuesday, 25th October 2011 (Social media surgeries)

By lgovsm On October 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The transcript comes courtesy of tweetwally.com which was signposted by the lovely @ermintrude2 on Twitter. It auto-updates with new content, so by the time you come to click on the link, you may find you need to scroll down a bit to [...]

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Chat transcript – Friday, 17th March 2011 (Social Media Tools)

By lgovsm On March 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In a slight change of plan and with many thanks to Benjamin Welby aka @bmwelby this weeks link is to the Storify of the chat on Social Media Tools.

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Chat announcement – Friday, 17th March 2011 (

By lgovsm On March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The topic for this Friday will be social media tools – how to find out about new ones, evaluating them, spotting the next big thing and asking all of you what you use and would recommend. We’re hoping to be able to put together a list that will contain something new for everyone to explore [...]

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Chat summary – Friday, 10 March 2011 (Performance Indicators for Social Media)

By lgovsm On March 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Due to the sad events occuring in Japan and around the Pacific Rim today, a decision was made to abandon the #lgovsm chat today. It was felt that the Twitter servers could be doing much better than allowing us to talk about social media in local government.

However, before we abandoned the chat, some interesting links [...]

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Chat transcript – Friday, 10 March 2011 (Performance Indicators for social media)

By lgovsm On March 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Due to the sad news emnating from Japan and other areas around the Pacific Rim today, a decision was made to abandon the #lgovsm chat. Twitter was struggling with the load on it and it is being used for far more important discussions than social media in local government. A transcript as far as the chat [...]

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Chat summary – Friday, 4 March 2011 (social media monitoring)

By lgovsm On March 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The following is an experiment and is an attempt to summarise the chat which was held today on social media monitoring.

Links summary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/03/local-government-twitter-walsall-24 – The Guardians article on Walsall Councils experiment on Twitter, tweeting for 24 hours /http://carlhaggerty.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/even-more-determined - a response to the comments posted on the Guardian article on Walsall Councils [...]

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Chat transcript – Friday, 4 March 2011 (social media monitoring)

By lgovsm On March 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The #lgovsm transcript for the chat on Friday 4th March on social media monitoring on What the Hashtag is now available. A summary of the discussion follows.

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Chat announcement – Friday, 4 March 2011 (social media monitoring tools)

By lgovsm On March 4, 2011 · 1 Comment

This week saw the publication of the Better Connected report from SOCITM in which everyone Councils attempts at digital and social media information and engagement were rated on a star system.

This led to some discussion about the validity of the metrics used in the report to come to these star ratings. So which social [...]

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