Social Media Surgeries for data and open data skills.
Could your community group or charity be more effective if you collected information in different ways, used it better, shared it with the right people? Would it help if you could more easily find...
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Using free tools to survey community groups and then perhaps combining that...
BOSF website As part of the open data project at the Social Media Surgeries we’ve been working with Birmingham Open Spaces Forum (BOSF) to see if we can find a way of using data to help them in their...
View ArticleSome links on open data, government and charities – Jan 2015
(First published here) The BBC Reports that ” The UK government is the most open and transparent in the world, according to global rankings looking at public access to official data. But web inventor...
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Can or Should Community Groups Standardise Surveys for Comparing Data?
The other day while I was looking for survey tools for BOSF I came across a page on the Office for National Statistic (ONS) website with guideline on the standardisation for collecting data for...
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Deciphering Data from the Department of Transport About Accidents in your...
I’m currently attempting to write a post about how data can be used for a community campaign. I’m looking at what data is available to someone who who would like to campaign for a pedestrian crossing...
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Open Data Policy for Voluntary Service Councils.
Manchester Community Central – the voluntary service council for the city – releases some of it’s data as open data. They define it as Open data are data that can be freely used, reused and...
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What is an Open Data Surgery?
Some of the more eagle eyed among you may have noticed a logo appearing next to some of our surgery dates denoting them as an “Open Data Surgery”: Where you see this logo it means that as well as...
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Adding Twitter Widgets to Surgery Pages using Twitter Widget ID
Over the last couple of months regular surgery managers may have see a few tweaks to their dashboards on SMS+ as we’ve been working to iron out some of the kinks in the system. One of them being the...
View ArticleFacebook, Profiles, Pages and Groups. What’s the difference?
It came up in conversation again today about the different ways you can use Facebook – profiles, pages, open groups, closed groups – and how confusing it can be to the casual user. There is a lot of...
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