Local | Social | Digital: Videos from the first event at the Lib Dem fringe in Birmingham

As you may have seen on the blog, On Road Media has been supporting Local | Social | Digital with FutureGov and OPM: A series of fringe events at the party conferences, designed to get party members chatting about how all levels of government can a) engage with communities more effectively and b) provide better services with the web.

The first one was in Birmingham last Sunday 18th September and, despite being up against a session on hacking with Blighty's favourite, Hugh Grant, we had a packed room full of animated discussion.

Here are some short videos to give you a flavour of the hour-long session.

Group discussion on Twitter - is it an issue of confidence, not time?:

Julian Huppert MP on Twitter & the perils of only talking to people who agree with you online:

Group discussion on Facebook, negative comments & recruiting members with the network:

Councillor Daisy Benson on using social media to reach her constituents (and to show people how hard she's working!)

Mark Pack (Liberal Democrat Voice) says it's not about technology: