In June 2007 I launched into self-employment. I am offering my professional advice and experience to community organisations and government agencies in the following areas:
- community organisation capacity building projects, focusing on ICT
- website content development, including strategy and project implementation
- online participation planning and facilitation
- social media and web content training, eg blogging.
I am a trained editor and specialise in writing for the web.
My past experience spans 15 years of working in paid and unpaid roles within community organisations and government. This has included management and advisory roles with the Ministry of Social Development, Department of Internal Affairs, Families Commission and Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand. I am currently a Trustee with the Wellington Regional 2020 Communications Trust.
Projects I’m currently working include:
- Wellington Region e-Rider IT service development
- establishing a national shared communications platform for a consortium of NGOs, called CIMS.
- changing gear for the online participation community of practice for SSC
- assisting Forest & Bird to upgrade their website
- advising Jigsaw on options for using new online tools and social media
Projects I’ve led in the past include:
- day-to-day management of The Couch website
- production of Managing Well catalogue
- management and upgrade of CommunityNet Aotearoa website
- co-ordination of 2002 Flaxroots Technology conference.
In 1999 I completed an MA thesis through Massey University looking at an episode of public participation run by Wellington City Council. I was particularly interested to learn whether the “Our city ~ our future” Strategy would add or detract from efforts to make Wellington a greener place to live. You can read about my conclusions in a summary of my thesis: “Shifting to a sustainable city? Citizen participation in Wellington’s Our City - Our Future Strategy” (PDF 52 KB).
I can be seen cycling around Wellington, when I’m not spending time with my partner and daughter, or tilling the soil.
Please get in touch if you’d like a CV or to discuss projects. My contacts are: stephen(at)commonknowledge.net.nz, or ph O 2 1 O 3 2 5 1 7 7.
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1 larry stillman // Feb 15, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hiya, I just found your blog etc. good on you. A lot of what we are doing crosses over, Ihave about 6 projects going with different organisations–3 other p/t staff if I can stretch the budget. I am planning a conf for all th eprojects and others in mid June, and I hope to get John Davies who is with ICT hub to come and speak–he works on industry-sector partnerships. I met with him and others in the uk.
we re writing up a lot of our reports and they will go on the doingit better website. Do you want to be on the internal mailing list so you know what is going on??
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