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15 Ways PCTs Can Improve Consultation On Difficult Issues

Posted by Gez Smith on Mar 04 2010 | Advice, Consultation, Conversations, Engagement, Good examples, Opinion research, Projects and client work

Amongst the different public sector organisations, PCTs are very often responsible for decisions that are affect huge numbers of people and cover issues that people feel strongly passionate about. These issues and decisions are often difficult. This makes it all the more important to consult on them, but at the same time all the more daunting a prospect. We've been running online consultations since 2004, frequently around difficult or contentious issues. Particularly… read more

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US: An overview of the National Dialogue on Health, IT and Privacy

Posted by JessG on Nov 05 2009 | Consultation, Democracy and government, Opinion research, Participation

Take a look at our video about the National Dialogue we ran on Health, IT and Privacy, which asks the question "How should we expand the use of information technology and protect personal privacy to improve health care?". On the eve of the 2008 Presidential Election, citizens and stakeholders from across the US convened to create a vision for the future of America's health, IT and privacy policies. We worked… read more

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Six Pieces about Sentiment Analysis

Posted by Andy on Sep 22 2009 | Advice, Opinion research, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

I've been researching sentiment analysis, and I think I've found pieces to suit a range of tastes and interests.

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First the notes from a 2008 talk given by Lillan Lee from Cornell University. Lee's topic is "...the flood of interest in: sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and the computational treatment of subjective language."

This is a good 'who, what, why, how', featuring:

  • - background
  • - useful stats
  • - an exploration of the broader implications
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Oh Yeah? – Prove It. Measuring Social Media Opinion

Posted by Andy on Apr 20 2009 | Conversations, Opinion research, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

Useful blog piece on hard metrics and anecdotal evidence for the value of social media. Via Power Shift - Social Media Blog
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Viral – everyone’s talking about it . . .

Posted by ChrisQ on Mar 24 2009 | Delib news and events, Opinion research

 Since launching aMap 6 weeks back, the concept really seems to have taken off with it virally propelling itself round the internet, getting people arguing from all corners of the world. A couple of my favorite arguments this week include: England or Australia byEmily from Norwich Popcorn: sweet or salty by John from Bideford Execution or Life Imprisonment by Matt from Wellington aMap's a great example of how engagement and… read more

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Everybody loves the sunshine

Posted by Ben on Mar 20 2009 | Opinion research, Social media, web 2.0 and other buzzwords

It wasn't long ago at all that I was getting the fright of my life trying to drive my car on six inches of solid ice and we were blogging about how the internet was awash with people talking about the snow.  Skip forward a few weeks and now the hot topic (pardon the pun) is that the sun's come out – hooray! Personally, I love that a… read more

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Opinion Suite product site gets a makeover

Posted by Ben on Feb 04 2009 | Delib news and events, Opinion Suite, Opinion research

We've been doing good work on our open source e-consultation and opinion research software package, Opinion Suite, and we've just set live a revamped product site to show it off to people.  Featuring snazzy videos from Gez and Michaela, answers to all those burning Opinion Suite questions and lashings of lovely white space, it really is the only place to be for anyone interested… read more

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HMRC Charter Consultation Launched

Posted by Gez Smith on Feb 03 2009 | Consultation, Delib news and events, Democracy and government, Opinion Suite, Opinion research, Projects and client work

We've been working on a really interesting project here at Delib for the last few months with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. In the 2008 Budget, the Government reaffirmed its belief that creating a charter for HMRC could play an important role in ensuring that the tax system is understandable and accessible to all taxpayers. As a result, after a first round of consultation last summer, the good people at HMRC have… read more

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Delib powers American ‘unique experiment in 21st century democracy’

Posted by Ben on Nov 18 2008 | Debate, Democracy and government, Engagement, Opinion research, Projects and client work

We're just in the process of wrapping up the exciting online dialogue project that we've been working on with the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) in the USA, http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/healthit. This has been a great project for many reasons, not least the incredible professionalism and ability of our stateside clients, but I particularly liked the way they described the project: In late October… read more

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Google gets Opinion Tracker-y on the VP debate

Posted by Ben on Oct 07 2008 | Democracy and government, Good examples, Opinion research

There's an enlightening post on the official Google blog which shares some of the data trends from the search engine during last week's American vice-presidential debate: candidates, questions and queries.

I love this kind of data where people's intentions are so clear (everybody 'straight talks' into Google) and present in such large numbers.  I was especially pleased to see this as it's… read more

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