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Co-design Our Society

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A space to capture discussion from our 20 January event in Leeds, and the subsequent ideas platform, and move to action.

Website: http://oursociety.eventbrite.com/
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Reports from events and online discussion

We'll add reports here of various discussions about the future of Our Society national, and in communities.

There's a report from the January 20 Leeds co-design event here, and a summary from the ideas platform here.

Discussion Forum

Resources: Your suggestions

Started by Phil Green. Last reply by Phil Green Apr 29. 6 Replies 0 Likes

You can contribute via any of the existing resource pages on this site - click on the Resources tab or sub menu links that appear when you hover the cursor over the resources tab.But you may have some suggestions which don't seem to fit into any of…Continue

Tags: collaboration, resources

Use of social media and mapping applications

Started by Gavin Feb 18. 0 Replies 1 Like

I am still exploring what might be done with mapping applications and the use of social media. In this example I combined or mashed data from one map with…Continue

Tags: achievement, educational, deprivation, schools

Our Society maps: your suggestions

Started by Phil Green. Last reply by Phil Green Feb 16. 18 Replies 0 Likes

Firstly this is not a discussion to cover the same ground as Our Square Mile , although either could include a sort of index of local maps. It's more a kind of round up of…Continue

Localism, Red Tories and Blue Labour

Started by Jeff Mowatt Jun 9, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

A post on the LSE politics blog describes the two camps, Blond's Red Tories and Glasman's Blue Labour. It dawns on me that what's being said about reforming business and promoting localism is based on an assumption that it all started with…Continue

Public Administration Select Committee inquiry - crowdsourcing a response

Started by julian dobson. Last reply by julian dobson May 20, 2011. 27 Replies 0 Likes

The House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee has launched an…Continue

Tags: crowdsourcing, Government, inquiry, Our Society

How can we link social visionaries to hard nosed business people?

Started by Gavin. Last reply by Jeff Mowatt Apr 25, 2011. 10 Replies 0 Likes

I don’t know whether any of you saw a recent article in the Times about ‘Social entrepreneurs’ but it was a really interesting piece exploring some of the strong similarities between business and social entrepreneurship, along with interesting…Continue

Our next event: a big society reality check

Started by julian dobson. Last reply by Lorna Prescott Apr 17, 2011. 7 Replies 1 Like

Next week marks the anniversary of David Cameron’s launch of the ‘big society’. It also happens to be the day when thousands of…Continue

Tags: Our, resident, control, WECH, Cameron

How can we co-develop resources to help sustain Our Society?

Started by Phil Green. Last reply by Jeff Mowatt Mar 21, 2011. 7 Replies 0 Likes

There's a risk that this is the wrong question at the wrong time, in which case of course it can simply be ignored. But perhaps co-design includes a willingness to confront difficult challenges as and when they arise?…Continue

Tags: funding, resources

Future of Leeds Debate- Suggestion from Rachael Unsworth- [Department of Geography]

Started by Andrew Kirk. Last reply by Andrew Kirk Mar 10, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes

I recently attended the 'Future of Leeds' debate hosted by the Salon debating society. One of the speakers was Rachael Unsworth from the Department of Geography at the University. One of her suggestions was for a 'People's Transport Investment…Continue

Public Administration Select Committee inquiry - crowdsourcing a response

Started by Peter Mar 10, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Hi Julian, I attach the Big Society Report that Wirral CVS put together folllowing consultation with over 100 VCF groups on Wirral. The report focuses on the practical implementation of Big Society policy agenda themes. Lots of insightful…Continue

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Comment by Phil Green on October 28, 2011 at 15:24: Enlivening or refreshing the main page design a bit, and hopefully stimulating a bit more interactivity perhaps:

more specifically, (than last post):

1. It's perhaps good that groups (3rd col) carry over onto other pages, so suggest just set to show 20 (we have 34) (I kind of like the way the images come up bigger in the central col, but its a trade off)
2. Ist col: move 'members' up to top or 2nd top, more welcoming, social looking than text. Move 'join mailing list' & 'timeline' to end as less about interactivity within the site.
3. middle col: move 'event 20 jan' to end, is getting to be history now, photos and videos more likely to stimulate interaction.

Comment by Phil Green on October 27, 2011 at 14:48: Should OurSociety's main page give more prominence to groups as for example NatCAN does? Also Project Dirt?

Comment by Phil Green on April 4, 2011 at 11:09: Possibly related: Can Our Society really be ours if our meetings aren't participatory...

Comment by Jeff Mowatt on March 23, 2011 at 10:56: Perhaps Our Society should be a 'person oriented' society?

An interesting blog fron UK Uncut

Comment by Jeff Mowatt on March 23, 2011 at 10:29: I've been wondering of late - Just how common is real collaboration rather than talking about it. I was struck recently by the apparent contradiction of advocates for collaborating and sharing and the dismissal of 'baby boomers' as being incapable of understanding.

http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=162049

Comment by Phil Green on February 20, 2011 at 18:24: Possibly related: comment on oursociety's Our Purpose page

Comment by Phil Green on February 19, 2011 at 11:58: Possibly related discussion and comment "...there must be a collective understanding and shared vision underpinning the diversity?"

If and when the time is right for co-designing something like this or 'shared values' I'd advocate using mixedink.com eg co-developing the text from our society's 'About us' page

Comment by David Wilcox on February 13, 2011 at 18:41: Welcome to new members to the group. As I posted over here we've had a great few days of discussion on an ideas platform which led to 29 suggestions on ways to take forward the Our Society network, and things that we might do or influence. Do please take a look at the platform, add ideas, comment or vote. After a few days we'll review the ideas, see if we can consolidate, and then see how we might take things forward.

On behalf of the core organising group. Any queries, do get in touch or drop a comment here.

Comment by Andrew Kirk on January 21, 2011 at 12:46: Couldn't make it to the event yesterday but I'd be interested to hear any feedback on ideas which were discussed there & get a better idea of how I could help out. I've been involved in a few campaigning/ fundraising groups before so there's probably a few ways I could help take the group forward.

Something I'm working on at the moment is developing a platform for different cities to have their own TV channel. The one for Leeds is coming on well & I'd be interested to hear any suggestions on what you would like to see broadcast. The idea behind it is to bring together different community groups, local businesses etc & also tie in to various live events. I think it might fit in well with the idea behind OurSociety & help raise the profile of what you're doing. Look forward to hearing your suggestions & hopefully see you at the next event.

Comment by Sophie Ballinger on January 20, 2011 at 13:33: Postcode for venue is LS11 5QP - we're missing a "P" on the eventbrite listing, though the map etc is correct :)