The Social Organisation: internal collaboration for councils

 1 October 2009 (8.30am – 11.30am)

 ***Keynote speaker added!***

Mark O'Neill, the Chief Information Officer at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will be our keynote speaker.  When asked to sum himself up via Twitter he said he 'wonders why we spend more time on technology than we do on people'.

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Join FutureGov and Huddle for breakfast and a morning of breaking down organisational barriers to new thinking.

With predicted squeezes on public spending, the need to innovate and collaborate has never been more urgent, but organisational silos and entrenched thinking block new ideas about how to deliver better public services for less.

This session, designed for those with responsibility for change, internal communications and organisational development, will introduce attendees to online tools that can help overcome internal barriers and unearth new thinking and ideas.  With case studies, talks and practical exercises this workshop will be a chance to find out how social media can work inside organisations to connect people, manage projects, challenge the way things are done and let innovation take the fore.

Draft agenda

8.30am      Coffee and pastries

8.40am      Welcome and introduction - Dominic Campbell, FutureGov

9.00am      Keynote speaker - Mark O'Neill, Chief Information Officer at DCMS

9.20am      Public services and social business: A new world of involvement - Anne McCrossan

9.40am      Huddle – a collaboration case study

10.00am         Break

10.15am    Shifting from bureaucracy to collaboration - Nick Jankel, Wecreate

10.40am    Small group exercise - discussion of barriers and opportunities

11.10am    Feedback - opportunities/tactics to get over barriers

11.30am    Official close

(Attendees who want to know more about Huddle are welcome to stay on for a demo of the tool and an informal chat)