Recent projects fall into several categories, in line with social reporting as making sense, joining up and helping out. Here’s how the idea of social reporting started, and me talking about it. My background and earlier work here.
Drew Mackie and I are now bringing together social reporting and work on games and networks in a Living Lab >
Our main current Living Lab project is an exploration into how innovations, enabled by digital technology, can help support personal well being, and services for ageing better. More here >
Open explorations – mixing online research, blogging and crowdsourcing of ideas with events.
- Helping Big Lottery Fund explore how to be more than a funder in their People Powered Change initiative in 2011, with John Popham and Drew Mackie. More here >
- Working for Nominet Trust, with Tim Davies and Alex Farrow, on how digital technologies can support young people to engage socially and economically with their communities. More here >
- A further exploration with Nominet Trust into how we can use digital technology for wellbeing later in life. More here >
- The future for rural networking with Carnegie UK Trust. More here >
- Exploring how digital technologies may enable the new community enablers – organisers, builders, mobilisers. More here >
Workshop games, books and resource kits
- Co-authored the Social by Social book on social technology for social change, with Amy Sample Ward, Andy Gibson and Cass Business School, commissioned by NESTA. More here >
- Developed the Social by Social game created – like others over the past 20 years – with Drew Mackie. More here on recent games and simulations >
- Created the community assets game, with Drew Mackie, to help community organisation develop new business models and collaborations in the face of funding cuts. More here >
- Working with the European Media4ME project on using a mix of media for social cohesion in multi-cultural neighbourhoods. More here >
Reporting events
- Lots of blogging, tweeting, video, audio to help events expand beyond the room, and be part of a process of wider engagement. These ranged big events like Chain Reaction and a social innovation conference in Lisbon, to a one-day sessions for the Innovation Exchange where we helped facilitators integrate video into table discussions.
Training
- I do lots of workshops using the games developed with Drew Mackie, combined with some hands-on support in using social media
- Here’s a day with community builders at Forever Manchester.
Over the past few years other projects have included:
- Helping the London Borough of Newham set up an internal online collaboration systems.
- Supporting the BBC Trust on a consultation process that engaged bloggers in helping promote online dialogue.
- Working with organisations like Community Housing Cymru and Digital Unite on how they could use social media.
- Helping the organisation Making Music think through how they could use social media to provide additional services to members
- Contributing to development of an innovation framework for NESTA, and principles for collaboration.
- Working with IDeA on co-designing knowledge transfer between councils.
- Workshop on designing user-centred digital public services with Consumer Focus
- Social innovation reporter for the Big Society Network
- Exploring how the use of social media could support tobacco control.
- Work with the Third Sector Research Centre on the Beyond the Radar project.
I worked with Simon Berry to develop The Membership Project which aims to explore how social media and other drivers for change will impact on associations, nonprofits and other groups that serve members or look to them for support. We received initial funding from NCVO and RSA, and you can see more recent development here.
I hope that skimming posts on this socialreporter blog – and dipping back into the earlier Designing for Civil Society – gives an idea of my activities. In the past I’ve done lots on community engagement and regeneration partnerships, and written some books on that which you’ll find here as free downloads.
See here for more on the services that I offer, and here for a CV.
David Wilcox
david@socialeporter.com
@davidwilcox
+44 (0) 7970 621696
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