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  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: How many people does it take to Help Out?   1 year, 4 months ago · View

    Thumbnail I met some really amazing people during the development of Help Out. One of them was Bill, the guy who just got fed up with the graffiti near his home. He started painting out all the tags in alley near his home. He told me that his neighbours and people using the alley to get [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Future Surrey update: Help Out and Casserole keep cooking   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Thumbnail   Phew, we’ve been very busy and out and about lately. CORE PROJECTS We’ve been out of County Hall and working hard on delivering Help Out and Casserole. Help Out  is a new tool which helps people get out in their local environment and make it better. Surrey residents are rightly proud of the lovely place they live. [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Billhooks and brownies: laying hedges in Epsom and Ewell   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    ThumbnailAs part of the Help Out development , I’ve been talking to a lot of people around Epsom and Ewell about how they are or could help out in the local environment. We’re looking at how people find out about opportunities and what the benefits are of having increased participation in keep both town and countryside looking great. [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Casserole: trying a new recipe in Redhill   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Thumbnail At Casserole the 2 week trial period has been well under way with 3 Diners being cooked for by 6 Cooks. After a couple of visits to local community groups and a market stall in Redhill town we managed to drum up interest and signup 22 Cooks and 4 Diners. In a small and effective trial we [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Help Out in Epsom and Ewell   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Thumbnail I’ve been out and about in Epsom and Ewell, meeting lots of people, attending Christmas fairs, driving the wrong way into a tip on my way to the depot, helping the police with their enquiries, petting dogs while chatting to their owners, clearing ditches and laying hedges (more on that later). All of this in [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Future Surrey: cooking up more good stuff   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    ThumbnailWelcome to another Future Surrey update. We’ve been out and about in Surrey doing some very exciting work lately, and it’s not too late for you to get involved. CORE PROJECTS Come find out more about  Casserole this weekend!  It helps bring people together over food. It encourages people who are already cooking to make just one extra portion [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Eat, Cook, Share: Casserole hits the markets   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    Thumbnail Roll up, roll up! Casserole is hitting the markets. This Saturday 26th November we’ll be running a Casserole stall at the Redhill market where we want to talk to all sorts of people about what we are doing. We want to spread the word about Casserole in Redhill and we’ll be on high street from 9.30 [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: SurreyCamp: the reunion   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    ThumbnailDid you attend SurreyCamp (or maybe wanted to) and would like to find out how to apply the Future Surrey approach of using design principles and social networking tools to help take your ideas further? If so, come along to  SurreyCamp reunion  is on the afternoon of  Monday 12 December.  There will be a few short presentations and a series of [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Help Out – Making Surrey Lovelier   1 year, 5 months ago · View

    ThumbnailGrowing up in America in the 70s, I was inundated with anti-littering messages. Woodsy the Owl told me, Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute! The crying Indian, guilted us all into realising we were destroying our country with our casual littering. ( YouTube video ) And then there was the one that played on the sensitive cultural stereotypes of my home state: There [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Co-production. Don’t wanna. Don’t hafta..   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Thumbnail Click to embiggen. Last week we had a great session on co-production with Surrey staff. Liz Daughters came up with the great idea of coming together to design the WORST possible approach to co-production. Something guaranteed to stop it dead in its tracks. Why? So we could identify any existing behaviours in ourselves or our [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Warning and informing   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Crisis communications is changing. Social media is changing the immediacy and tone of of communications and engagement during adverse avents. The looting we saw this summer was partly spread by mobile access to social networks and closed network messaging services like Blackberry Messenger. There are already some great examples of local authorities and local emergency [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler uploaded the file: Social media in crisis communications to AvatarSocial media   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Presentation on using social media for crisis communications to the Warning and Informing working group of the Surrey Resilience Forum on 7 November 11.

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Co-producing co-production in Surrey   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    ThumbnailWe’ve just come off two great (half) days on a co-production session. The information we shared about the session was deliberately vague. No agenda. No stated outcomes. Just an invitation to spend some time talking about co-production. We did this because we wanted to co-produce this event with Surrey staff. It often takes a lot of [...]

  • ThumbnailThis week I did something I never expected to on the Future Surrey project. I chopped down trees. So what does wood cutting have to do with social innovation, service design and better use of social media in public services? A lot as it turns out. Earlier in the project I’d met with Lisa Creaye-Griffin, Surrey’s [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Future Surrey update   1 year, 6 months ago · View

    Thumbnail  CORE PROJECTS Over the last two weeks we’ve been busy cooking up plans for two core Future Surrey innovation projects: Casserole and Help Out! People share some the best experiences of their lives over a drink or a meal.  Casserole is a project which helps address social isolation and better nutrition by helping people share food with vulnerable [...]

  • Ingrid Koehler uploaded the file: Social media resources for local government to AvatarSocial media   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    A collection of guidance, strategy and resources around social media use in local government.

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  • Ingrid Koehler wrote a new blog post: Essex is not the only way   1 year, 7 months ago · View

    Thumbnail   Yesterday Carrie and I were at the launch of Good for Essex.    It’s a new site to support formal and informal volunteering in Essex.  Individuals can sign up and be alerted about opportunities that fit in with their life goals and aspirations and organisations can share things that need to be done. FutureGov worked with Essex County [...]

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  • Ingrid Koehler and AvatarClaire Hodgson are now friends   1 year, 7 months ago · View

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