{"id":1051,"date":"2014-05-23T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-05-26T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T15:41:25","slug":"whats-holding-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2014\/05\/23\/whats-holding-us-back\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s holding us back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What, asks Steph Gray in his <a title=\"Postbureaucrat blog\" href=\"http:\/\/postbureaucrat.com\/2014\/03\/06\/what-holds-people-back\/\">Postbureaucrat<\/a> blog,<span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0holds people back from using digital tools and techniques at work?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do\u00a0they need someone to tell them what Twitter is for?<\/li>\n<li>Or does\u00a0the system block it and their boss disapprove?<\/li>\n<li>Maybe the press office\u00a0runs a tight ship on the corporate channels and other people don\u2019t know or dare to do it themselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Followers of <em>Just Do It<\/em> will know\u00a0that this question\u00a0has been troubling\u00a0us for some time too. After\u00a0observing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilserviceworld.com\/articles\/news\/dwp-launch-second-digital-academy-summer-leeds\">Department of Work and Pensions Digital Academy<\/a>, Steph has\u00a0concluded that <span style=\"color: #000000\">there are just two things needed to get change going in large organisations: attitude and critical mass.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attitude picks the fights, and critical mass wins them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">So we need\u00a0individuals unwilling to put up with bad ways of doing things and a<\/span>\u00a0group of these rebels large enough that their &#8216;energy can be harnessed, opportunities taken, occasional failures accepted, and the crucial sense of inevitability created&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Digital Leaders SCotland\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalleaders.co.uk\/dl-local\/dl-scotland\/\">Digital Leaders Scotland<\/a> touched on a similar topic at a Salon event on whether security was an enabler or barrier to digital services. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalleaders.co.uk\/is-security-an-enabler-or-a-barrier-to-online-digital-services\/\">Salon\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0notes that\u00a0trust more than security is the problem: the\u00a0NHS trusts people to do all sort of things, such as open heart\u00a0surgery, but gets twitchy about people using Twitter (echoes here of the oft quoted former Deputy Chief Constable Gordon Scobbie <em>&#8216;We trust you with a baton and with the right to take away someone\u2019s liberty, I think we can trust you with a Twitter account&#8217;<\/em>).\u00a0This despite evidence from people like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseres.com\/Blog\">Michael Seres<\/a> who has demonstrated beyond question how social media can be used for effective and efficient communication\u00a0between doctor and patient.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion heard that\u00a0moves to towards a more trusting regime were hampered by reports, again from the NHS, saying things like &#8216;online social networks are by their very nature home grown and ungovernable \u2026 universal blocking may seem like the best approach&#8217;. \u00a0That looks like a fight waiting to be picked!<\/p>\n<p><em>Just Do It<\/em> will be attending a couple of events next month. The first, on 5 June, is another <a title=\"Digital Leaders Salon Event\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalleaders.co.uk\/dl-local\/dl-scotland\/\">Salon Event<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Digital Participation \u2013 whose responsibility is this, and how can we make it happen? <\/em>The<em>\u00a0<\/em>second is the SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations)\u00a0<a title=\"Digital Scotland Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scvo.org.uk\/events\/digital-scotland-festival-2014\/\">Digital Scotland Festival<\/a> on\u00a016 June. \u00a0\u00a0<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope we find some some people with attitude and enough of them create that crucial\u00a0sense of inevitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, asks Steph Gray in his Postbureaucrat blog,\u00a0holds people back from using digital tools and techniques at work?\u00a0 Do\u00a0they need someone to tell them what Twitter is for? Or does\u00a0the system block it and their boss disapprove? Maybe the press office\u00a0runs a tight ship on the corporate channels and other people don\u2019t know or dare&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2014\/05\/23\/whats-holding-us-back\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s holding us back?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}