Saturday, 15 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-15

Canuckflack / Secret Guide to Social Media in Large Organizations Colin McKay’s excellent intro to social media in a handy ebook format! (tags: social+media guide ebooks)

Friday, 14 March, 2008

How to paste stuff into WordPress

Most people have WordPress’ rich text editor turned on, because generally speaking, it makes life a lot easier. It does have its problems though – one is when embedding media from places like YouTube and SlideShare and the other is…

Thursday, 13 March, 2008

lgSHOUT!

lgSHOUT! is another little service I have put together for local government, following on from LGSearch, which went a little way to fixing the problem of getting relevant search results. lgSHOUT! tries to do something about communication. The idea behind…

AOL to buy Bebo for $850 millon cash

Here’s an interesting development: AOL have announced the purchase of social network Bebo for $850 million in cash. Previous coverage didn’t even mention AOL as a potential buyer. From BusinessWire: With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide,…

Wednesday, 12 March, 2008

Rethinking government news

Where do government and other public sector folk get their news from? Info4Local eGov Monitor GCN Kable Individual government department websites Any others? I wonder if there is a possibility for putting together a one-stop-shop for news, aggregating the popular…

Tuesday, 11 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-11

Dead Tree Web 2.0 Reading List – backpass version.. « backpass.org Matt Jukes’ take on the web 2.0 reading list (tags: matt+jukes, deadtreeweb2.0readinglist) Lifestream, but don’t tell me twice | jon bounds I guess this is what being made an…

Hello, Rohan Silva

I, like Nick Booth and presumably countless others, got an email from someone called Rohan Silva today, who has an @parliament email address. Rohan writes: I thought you might be interested in how Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson‘s speech yesterday…

Be my boss!

 The information authority is currently recruiting a Community and Stakeholder Manager. This is a great job, not least because it means you get to tell me what to do. Here’s some details: With senior-level communications and stakeholder-management experience in the…

Tom Watson’s been busy

Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister for web stuff, has been busy, first of all giving a speech on Government 2.0: Driving through the cultural change in all our communications that sees the internet, mobile and other new media as…