Now we have a Minister for Civil Society

I haven't posted anything to this Designing for Civil Society blog for a couple of years, because I've been concentrating on socialreporter.com and socialbysocial.net. However, I feel I should record that we now have a Minister for Civil Society in Nick Hurd, and a major announcement today about the Big Society initiative he will be leading in the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government. More about that here.

I've been writing a lot recently about the use of games and other workshop techniques to develop the sort of local collaborations needed if the Big Society ideas are to prosper. Definitely Designing for Civil Society ... which makes me wonder whether I should start blogging here again, or at least take the term across into a group on socialbysocial.net. Thoughts welcome, if anyone is still reading.

Comments

[Davebriggs]

I'm still here! Nice to see DfCS popping up again in my Google Reader!

To be honest I think DfCS is the perfect title for the challenges we are facing at the moment, and for the areas of interest that seem to be cropping up.

But perhaps if you have moved on in your blogging, whatever you write about belongs in the space you're inhabiting now. I've often thought about returning to LGNewMedia for local government social media stuff, but no... best not to go back.

Maybe this is a reason why it's best to blog under a banner that's about yourself rather than a particular topic...means you're free to write about whatever you like!

[davidwilcox]

Thanks Dave - and also picked up the discussion here.
I agree about blogging under a personal banner, which is one reason I moved.
I was wondering whether to using Designing for Civil Society as the banner for a new sort of site with a focus on games and interactive events, linked to howto resources. I could import some stuff from here allowing me to close the Typepad account. Or I do have a neighbourhoods domain ...

[Fowora]

Hi David, just signed up to the 'revitalised' site - I would be interested in participating in a space to develop the type of events that might be used to develop civil society - my take would be more focussed around young people though...