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An online notebook
Had a great meeting today with two of my fellow facilitators at the Community of Practice for Knowledge Management in the Public Sector (don’t worry, we’re working on the name). The community has been running for a little while now…
This blog is just an archive. DavePress is far more up-to-date.
mozdev.org – deepest sender Deepest Sender is another blog editing Firefox extension, like Scribefire (tags: firefox blogging blog extensions editor) Welcome to QTM Open source multi-platform blog editor. Very much in development. (tags: blog opensource linux client mac editor blogging)…
One of the many areas of communications which can be improved by using social media services is the press release. Indeed, there are a number of sites dedicated to creating a ‘social media release’, including a group blog and a…
At work we are having our personalities dissected through the wonder of Myers-Briggs. It’s a way of finding out how your personality affects the way you work, and how you interact with others. Hmmm. Anyway, it turns out that I…
Vodafone | receiver magazine Interesting online community from Vodafone, found via tweet from Neville Hobson. (tags: mobile magazine technology future design blog culture vodafone communication business community) BBC Internet Blog – MyCBBC Notes on the Beeb’s plans for a customisable…
The problems of accessing social websites is often discussed by government webbies, and I dare say it is an issue for the private sector too. How can we be expected to engage with online communities if they can’t get past…
At some point in the near future, I promise that I will blog about something other than blog comments. I mean, I know it’s good to find a niche, but that one is a little specific even for me. Anyhow,…
Following my last post about blog comments, a couple of posts have popped up in my feed reader about the topic. Firstly James Cridland ponders what makes him decide to leave a comment on a blog, or use his own…
…including me. Jeremy Gould points us towards his latest bit of furniture – the ‘Dave‘: It’s a pretty handy looking laptop table, and only twenty quid from Ikea. Face it – every home should have a Dave.
How do you track the conversations that go on in comments around the blogosphere? It’s easy enough to know what the actual blogs themselves are doing, after all – we have our feed readers, Google’s blog search and technorati. We…
Every day, WordPress and the community around it manages to surprise and delight me more. I have mentioned how it can be used to consult before, specifically by using the amazing CommentPress theme. But you can also create small polls…
The community that formed around the barcamp for uk gov web types (hence the name) has been working hard to start developing idea and connections that can start to have a real beneficial effect on the way that public services…
Google Spreadsheet Surveys Use Google Docs to run public surveys and consultations. Cool! (tags: survey tools interactive google) SurveyGizmo: WordPress Survey Plugin – Online Survey Tool Plugin that allows you to run surverys inside WP (tags: wordpress plugin survey plugins)…
Simon Dickson points to a new theme that turns WordPress into a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. This confirms to me something that I have been thinking for a while that WordPress is no longer a blogging system, nor a…
I have been wanting to give this blog a redesign almost ever since I started it. For some reason I just haven’t taken to the Mandigo theme I was using – a bit dark, maybe? I do think that darker…
nptech-popokatea » home Laura Whitehead’s wiki full of excellent stuff (tags: wiki laura+whitehead) It’s Tech Weekly time again! | Technology | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian’s tech podcast features Beth Kanter! (tags: guardian nptech socialmedia beth+kanter)
One thing that came out of the recent barcamp for UK government types is that as much as those who really dig this stuff do their best to champion its use wherever possible, it really comes down to how senior…
One of the interesting discussions at yesterday’s focus group meeting at Ruralnet was around the idea that by aggregating all the content that’s out there on rural issues, Ruralnet might end up overloading people with information. In other words, no…
Focus Group throughts | ruralnet|online My blog post on today’s focus group at Ruralnet, giving some possible ideas for future development. (tags: ruralnetonline ruralnet socialmedia) Love Life Live Lent 2 – Online Community The Church of England gets involved in…