Friday, 8 February, 2008

On blog comments

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…

Polling day

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…

barcampukgovweb Developments

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…

Thursday, 7 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-07

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)…

WordPress is a platform

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…

Redesigning DavePress

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…

Wednesday, 6 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-06

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)

Social Media Risks

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…

Digital Curator

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…

Tuesday, 5 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-05

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…