Posts Tagged ‘unconference’

Local Gov Camp 01/07/2011

The Saturday before last Digital Birmingham were involved in putting on Local Gov Camp on its return to Birmingham. Actually, my Gov Camp started on the Friday night when 20 or so ne’er do wells turned up early to have a drink in The Anchor followed by a curry at Manzils in Digbeth. Already, it was invigorating to be part of conversations between such committed people.

Local Gov Camp is is run using the unconference format. Here we don’t have any key note speakers, the attendees run their own sessions if they want to and the agenda is decided on the morning, based on people pitching the sessions they want to run.

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A Big Day Out – UK Gov Camp 2011 #ukgc11 25/01/2011

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I had a big day out down in London on Saturday at UK Gov Camp, held at the Microsoft offices in Victoria. This event has been running for a couple of years now and is billed as being a self-organised unconference for “government types with an interest in how the public sector uses technology”.

This might need a bit of explaining if you don’t know what an unconference is. Essentially, it is where the agenda for the event is decided on the day and there are no keynote speakers, just workshop sessions.

Anybody can propose and lead a session.

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On becoming more unorganised 20/05/2009


Talking and blogging at JEECamp. Pic by Kasperbs

I can’t recall a time when there was so many events related to digital media and social media happening in Birmingham. The first half of this year has seen a frenzy of activity both by those whose job it is to organise such events and those who take it upon themselves to organise stuff for the hell of it. And as someone who had previously only ever attended formally organised events I’ll be off to my third ‘unconference’ in as many weeks at the end of this month.

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