Scripting Enabled
Scripting Enabled looks like a really worthwhile couple of days out, if you can make it: Scripting Enabled is a two day conference and workshop aimed at making the web a more accessible place. We are planning to achieve this…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Month August 2008
FriendFeed fun
I have been playing with FriendFeed today. It’s an interesting service that I first wrote about back in February, but haven’t paid a massive amount of attention to since. For those not in the know, FriendFeed is a service that…
Digital Enabler
Since announcing that I am venturing into the world of self-employment, quite a few people have asked me the perfectly reasonable question of what it is that I am actually going to do. After much umming and ahing, I think…
UKYouthOnline date and location confirmed
Tim Davies has confirmed when and where the UKYouthOnline unconference will be taking place: 27th September at the HQ of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, on Victoria Street in London. The event promises to be a fabuolous opportunity…
Yay! Another Govblogger!
A big welcome to the blogosphere to Neil Williams, all round good government web egg, who has started a blog called Mission Creep. He says in his opening post: It genuinely feels like exciting, important things are starting to happen…
ColaLife.org
Simon Berry’s ColaLife campaign is a truly wonderful thing, a real example of using the groundswell to develop an idea into a campaign and then, hopefully, into action. I was always at a bit of a loss, wanting to help…
Selling social media
Chris Brogan‘s blog is full of great stuff on social media. He has just published a list of 12 ways you can sell social media to your boss. Here’s the first six as a taster: Social media tools like blogging,…
Guidance and Toolkits
There have been a number of posts popping up around the use of the social web within government, both as a reaction to discussions of the civil service guidelines for online participation and to the need to provide the tools…
Holidays
A week without any posts here? I must have been on holiday. We spent a week on the Suffolk coast, not far from Southwold (no, I didn’t bump into Gordon), and had a wonderful time. I know the area well,…