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Title: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Simon on November 28, 2009, 20:00

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.

Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8382252.stm

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Rik on November 29, 2009, 12:25

He's not wrong. These days, we have a voice on a scale unprecedented in history. Of course, that doesn't mean we are more listened to. :(

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Simon on November 29, 2009, 19:34

And even if listened to, we are often not heard. 

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: sam on November 29, 2009, 19:44

argh, I hate our reliance on computers... soon, if not already,  you will be a lower class citizen without a computer and a broadband connection. Stupid really.

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Simon on November 29, 2009, 19:56

It's getting to a point where a computer is an essential, rather than a luxury.

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: sam on November 29, 2009, 20:05

Quote from: Simon on November 29, 2009, 19:56

It's getting to a point where a computer is an essential, rather than a luxury.

 :-\

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Simon on November 29, 2009, 20:44

Well, you can't send a kid to school without one.  ::)

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: sam on November 29, 2009, 20:55

Quote from: Simon on November 29, 2009, 20:44

Well, you can't send a kid to school without one.  ::)

without having a child? yeah, otherwise that's kidnapping.

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Simon on November 29, 2009, 21:06

:hehe:

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Rik on November 30, 2009, 11:13

Quote from: Simon on November 29, 2009, 19:56

It's getting to a point where a computer is an essential, rather than a luxury.

TBH, I think it's already got there.

Title: Re: Social media 'could transform public services'
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2009, 11:25

Yes, that's probably true.