I've been a print journalist, consultant in regeneration partnerships and community engagement, and for the past few years have focused on  how to mix face-to-face and online activities for collaboration. I call that social reporting. I've recently worked with Drew Mackie on the Joined Up Digital project for the Centre for Ageing Better, following an exploration into Living Well in the Digital Age with the Age Action Alliance. We've developed social network mapping for the Croydon Best Start programme and other clients, and also created a suite of workshop games and simulations to support co-design.

My main blogs:

• Social reporter
• Mediablends

At the Mediablends wiki

• Living Well in the Digital Age
• Mapping and Social Networks
• Workshop games and simulations

Open explorations - mixing online research, blogging and crowdsourcing of ideas with events.

• Helping Big Lottery Fund explore how to be more than a funder in their People Powered Change initiative in 2011, with John Popham and Drew Mackie. More here >
• Working for Nominet Trust, with Tim Davies and Alex Farrow, on how digital technologies can support young people to engage socially and economically with their communities. More here >
• A further exploration with Nominet Trust into how we can use digital technology for wellbeing later in life. More here >
• The future for rural networking with Carnegie UK Trust. More here >
• Exploring how digital technologies may enable the new community enablers - organisers, builders, mobilisers. More here >

Workshop games, books and resource kits

• Co-authored the Social by Social book on social technology for social change, with Amy Sample Ward, Andy Gibson and Cass Business School, commissioned by NESTA. More here >
• Developed the Social by Social game created - like others over the past 20 years - with Drew Mackie. More here on recent games and simulations >
• Created the community assets game, with Drew Mackie, to help community organisation develop new business models and collaborations in the face of funding cuts. More here >
• Working with the European Media4ME project on using a mix of media for social cohesion in multi-cultural neighbourhoods. More here >

Reporting events

• Lots of blogging, tweeting, video, audio to help events expand beyond the room, and be part of a process of wider engagement. These ranged big events like Chain Reaction and a social innovation conference in Lisbon, to a one-day sessions for the Innovation Exchange where we helped facilitators integrate video into table discussions.

Training

• I do lots of workshops using the games developed with Drew Mackie, combined with some hands-on support in using social media
• Here's a day with community builders at Forever Manchester.

Over the past few years other projects have included:

• Helping the London Borough of Newham set up an internal online collaboration systems.
• Supporting the BBC Trust on a consultation process that engaged bloggers in helping promote online dialogue.
• Working with organisations like Community Housing Cymru and Digital Unite on how they could use social media.
• Helping the organisation Making Music think through how they could use social media to provide additional services to members
• Contributing to development of an innovation framework for NESTA, and principles for collaboration.
• Working with IDeA on co-designing knowledge transfer between councils.
• Workshop on designing user-centred digital public services with Consumer Focus
• Social innovation reporter for the Big Society Network
• Exploring how the use of social media could support tobacco control.
• Work with the Third Sector Research Centre on the Beyond the Radar project.

Contact

• David Wilcox david@socialeporter.com
• @davidwilcox +44 (0) 7970 621696