Tuesday, August 15, 2006

PM Partner update 14-15 August

PM Partner update
This week we'll be looking at two very important topics on PM Partner - communications and citizen and user engagement. How well do your partners communicate with each other, with staff and stakeholders and with the community at large? Are you of the opinion that partnerships shouldn't have a public "persona" themselves (e.g. citizens don't care who delivers so long as delivery is good) or do you think it's important to demonstrate that partners are working together?

Also, engaging with users, citizens or community groups is increasingly important and there's increasingly an emphasis on working with users to deliver better outcomes. How individuals partners harness their own work in engaging users (from consultation to co-production) and bring this experience together for improved outcomes.

There are already some great resources and contributions on these pages, but we need your view, too. You can always find the current topics at: http://pmpartner.editme.com/thisweek


What's your story?
Last week I sent an extra email asking participants to create their own page - we've already had quite a few contributions. Each of them is different, but at the same time exactly what I had in mind. They're about personal experience, interesting practice and organisational approach. You can find them all at the "my pages index" This is a great way of sharing practice and finding out what others are doing, but it will only work if a good number of people contribute. So go on...

One person emailed me afterwards to say how fun it had been. We have full instructions here.
I'll highlight some of these contributions later on today.

Made to measure
We're still looking at the performance measurement and monitoring topic, too. It would be really helpful if you could share your own examples of performance reporting here or on your own page.

Keeping in touch:
You can always find out what recent contributions have been through the daily update.

What's new?
Our policy discussion page has some quite interesting dialogue around the relationship between central and local government and the "duty to cooperate".


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