Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
More Harringay Festival Video
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Bit scrappy? Great I'd say! And caught the spirit of the Festival.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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So someone in the video recognised you as being "someone" from the BBC and it wasn't "John D" so I assumed you were posting this for someone else. I liked the two girls eating their food in the gutter the best of course.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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John you are good !
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Good job, John. The first of many I hope! I've added it in the video gallery (Since it's uploaded to YouTube and only embedded here, it doesn't use up our space). You might want to redirect your link to that page?
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An email I sent this evening to my fellow Haringey Labour councillors
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Dear Colleagues,
This Thursday 15 October, the "Cabinet" Advisory Board will discuss the ban on Haringey staff accessing Social Media websites.
Please have a look at a 4-and-a-half-minute video which has just been posted on YouTube - one of the banned sites.
The video was made by a local resident who is active in Harringay Online community website. He edited video clips, with the sounds and smiles, music and dance from the highly successful Harringay Festival in Green Lanes on 20 September.
It was a great event and enjoyed by everyone lucky enough to be there. This included Haringey staff who worked very hard to help plan and run this Festival - in close partnership with local voluntary organisations, traders, residents, the police, and other agencies. Some at least of our staff took part as volunteers.
I think it would be really silly if Haringey staff were banned from viewing this video; and other similar videos and photos of community events across Haringey, now posted on social media sites. Worse, it would make the borough look silly if we continue to try to shut the door on the twenty-first century.
I've commented on this issue; and on my Flickr pages have listed some helpful links which have been sent to me.
I want us to treat our staff as professionals and grown-ups. To let them use these new social media tools when appropriate - as you and I can do as local councillors. Of course, as in any organisation, a small minority of staff may abuse such privileges. But that should be a matter for their managers to manage.
Alan
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Permalink Reply by Justin Hinchcliffe on
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You surely have a home pc to view such sites? Upset you can't get on to blogspot from your council paid-for computer?
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The thing that really gets me is when council staff use their council paid for telephones to book doctors appointments for their children. Does that wind you up too Justin?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Oh dear, Justin. Cribbing from the Dail Mail again. You are very much out of step with the way Conservatives are thinking with these careless remarks.
Still not read Clay Shirky's 'Here Comes Everybody'? I'll lend you my copy.
Did you click through to Alan's Flickr pages and read the comments and discussion?
Go have a look at the model of Conservativism, Barnet council's website. You will notice on the front page links to leader's blog, social media sites like Flickr and You Tube and a forum set up for residents. This video could and should be on the council channel. Luckily for us, the talented Mr D can share it with us here.
Then, do yourself a favour, and follow Conservative council Wandsworth's James Cousins @jamescousins on Twitter.
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Permalink Reply by Stuart on
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Just to follow up Liz's comment, Eric Schmidt of Google is an adviser on Tory policy at the personal request of David Cameron. Cameron himself has, more than once, espoused "Google government" (whatever that means) and Rachel Whetstone (a senior VP at Google Europe) is one of his trusted advisers. And Google own You Tube.
Alan's absolutely right - there are plenty tools out there that let employers monitor their staff's internet usage to ensure that the minority do not abuse their internet access.
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Just to clarify a point here - I didn't have council employees in mind, but councillors who rely on their council pc to look at and create dodgy sites. There is a reason, which I do not want to go into for the time being.
Like most political campaigners, we do embrace new technologies and social networking applications - that's why we're on Twitter, Facebook etc
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