From David Wilcox, social reporter and thought leader in "civil society"
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Building Big Society giving and doing by making it easier to listen
Update and summary: Lord Nat Wei, one of the authors of the Big Society idea and Network founder, will no longer blog about the vision. He will be working as unpaid advisor to Government. Meanwhile, many people are talking about Big Society, but finding it difficult to get to the core idea and connect with each other. The network could make a virtue of listening, and encouraging many voices.
There’s been lots of discussion around Big Society over the past couple of weeks, as you can see from my bookmarks, the Twitter stream, and this smart way of displaying content generated in many different places.
Using paper.li you can agree a hashtag (keyword with # before it) then ask people to post links (URLs) of blog items or other content in a tweet containing the hashtag. Set up paper.li to search for the tag, and it displays both the tweets and the original articles – creating your own news page refreshed daily (thanks @evangineer). (read more...)
David Wilcox has offered considerable thought leadership in understanding modern civil society and the idea of civic engagement.
Social Reporter extends the discussion between face-to-face and online engagement around the powerful issues affecting neighborhoods today.
David's earlier blog, Designing for Civil Society, began exploring and reflecting on the intersections and possibilities of social media, engagement, and collaboration in August 2007.
