Week 7

June 21st

It’s been a pretty hard week as I had to defend the reasons why a blog would be an efficien tool in the Administration. On Tuesday when I explained what a blog is to my work colleagues, there were various reactions – a (very) small minority grasp the idea and the rest are divided into two camps, the sceptics and the detractors. One of the this latter gorup didn’t even know what a blog was until recently but still said that “this blog thing” won’t work in Local Government. To which I ask myself how can somebody who knows nothing abot web 2.0 tools oppose them. I’m sure that the sceptics can be convinced though.

Explaining things I realise that the first, and most important step, is a change of mentality and especially not to be scared (of change).

Tonight on Canal 33 (Catalan TV channel) there is a programme called “Tot un món” where the subject will be web 2.0. The video of the show is in Catalan and Spanish.

more about “Tot un mon“, posted with vodpod

Week 6

June 15th

On Wednesday 11th I attended The Future of Learning – The transformation of online learning through social network technologies and Rich Internet Aplications (such as video and webcam), the 13th session dedicated to the web organised by Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada (CEJFE). The speaker was Gregor Gimmy, founder & CEO of Sclipo – see the video above (in Spanish). It was a very fruitful session as when it was over I had resolved the problem of a part of the communication between workers, the last point I was debating in the implementing of web 2.0 tools in my work.

more about “Setmana 6 / Semana 6 / Week 6“, posted with vodpod

Week 5

June 8th

If you mix all these infinitives: share, communicate, create, innovate, publish, exchange, change, collaborate, participate, organise, manage, respect – the result will be web 2.0.

Last Tuesday morning I attended the course Aprender para innovar. Innovemos la Administración (Learn to innovate. Let’s innovate the Administration) organised by the EAPC (Public Administration School of Catalonia) and led by Jordi Graells who, apart from explaining with great clarity what we can do to apply web 2.0 tools in local government, left me with a sense of optimism. I came out of the session with plenty of new ideas and very happy to have met people with similar interests as I often feel alone in this.

In the afternoon I had a working session with the head of the project of the Department of the Environment & Housing and a representative of Neoris where I explained all my ideas. The meeting was really positive.
PS: RB and DR – you’re doing a great job.

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