{"id":42,"date":"2009-02-20T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connectedpractice.iriss.ac.uk\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:36:46","slug":"launch-of-connected-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/2009\/02\/20\/launch-of-connected-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Connected Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it&#8230;we&#8217;re open for business! Connected Practice was officially launched by GSSW &amp; IRISS on the 18th of February 2009. The launch participants were a broad cross-section of people from our community of interest including: social work academics, public sector IT managers, civil servants, NHS (Knowledge Services Group), Scottish Social Services Learning Networks and others. The discussion was vibrant and wide-ranging. We gave two short presentations. Neil introduced Connected Practice, the idea of the network society, and outlined several broad questions that the work of Connected Practice would attempt to address:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the implications of the network society for social services (e.g. the impact on social networks &amp; social capital)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> How are social services responding to new forms of networked social solidarity &amp; new forms of social disorder?<\/li>\n<li>What new networked techniques and processes are emerging to organise, manage &amp; deliver social services (e.g. internal business processes &amp; customer facing service delivery)?<\/li>\n<li>What new opportunities &amp; risks are there for citizens &amp; users of social services?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I described a bid we&#8217;ve made for an international research symposium submitted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteforadvancedstudies.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Advanced Studies<\/a>. If the bid is successful we&#8217;ll host a two week long event in the Autumn of 2009: the first week will bring together leading international researchers on the network society to share current thinking and work together on an international research agenda; the second week would engage social services policy makers, practitioners &amp; service users exploring policy and practice issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Advanced studies is itself an very significant initiative bridging academic research and real world policy issues. In the coming weeks they are hosting a programme on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instituteforadvancedstudies.org.uk\/Programmes\/SurveillanceandSociety.aspx\">Surveillance &amp; Society in the 21st Century<\/a> organised by Professor Mike Nellis.<\/p>\n<p>The slides used at the launch event are available below:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_1042778\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/NeilBallantyne\/connected-practice\" title=\"Connected Practice\">Connected Practice<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/NeilBallantyne\">NeilBallantyne<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s it&#8230;we&#8217;re open for business! Connected Practice was officially launched by GSSW &amp; IRISS on the 18th of February 2009. The launch participants were a broad cross-section of people from our community of interest including: social work academics, public sector IT managers, civil servants, NHS (Knowledge Services Group), Scottish Social Services Learning Networks and others. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/2009\/02\/20\/launch-of-connected-practice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Launch of Connected Practice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,15,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/connectedpractice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}