How not to get fired
Great post by Neil Williams on how civil servants can approach blogging in a way that means they will get readers but won’t lose their jobs: Starting up your own personal blog is dead easy. Unless you’re a civil servant…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Month August 2008
Bookmarks for August 29th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 29th: UK Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds – Er… just what it says. Useful list, hat tip to Tom Steinberg on the MySociety list Municipalist: Q &…
My Building Democracy idea
I just had a request from someone asking what the best community sites are for a certain – fairly specific – group of people. A little digging, partly Google, partly ‘I know I’ve seen something like this somewhere…’, soon produced…
Building a new Palimpsest
Palimpsest is a site I am really rather proud of. It was my first attempt at building a really social web community, launching in April 2003, and is still going strong. It’s a forum, pure and simple, where people talk…
Bookmarks for August 27th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 27th: MJ Ray – slef on WsM Forum – Parish councillor's blog Supplying Decent Services – Hazel Blears announces a review of what happens when local gov doesn't deliver the goods, to be chaired…
Google Reader explained
The fine folk at Common Craft keep producing the goods. If you need a quick intro to Google Reader, here’s a great one: [HTML1]
More cloud working stuff
I missed a couple of bits out of my recent post on stuff I am/will be using to work once I am self employed (not long to go now, folks!). Here’s a couple more: Communications Being at home alone more…
Bookmarks for August 26th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 26th: 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes – Another useful roundup of wordpress themes
How councils can get started with social media
A sunday morning tweet from Tom Watson set my mind racing this morning: Which is a very interesting question, not least for me as I have a considerable interest in loca government’s use of social media, as facilitator of the…
Levels of social web engagement
I have been reading Li and Bernhoff’s Groundswell just recently, and I came across an interesting division of levels of interaction with the social web. I’ll type it out here for your edification. Creators Publish a blog Publish your own…