10 different ways to post to your blog
One of the great about using a blog as a publishing platform is the flexibility of it. Every blog platform worth its salt has a editor built into it, a place online where you can type your stuff and hit…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Month September 2008
Flaming for Obama
Lovely piece in Prospect this month from Peter Jukes, talking about the occasionally fractious community of Democrat bloggers in the US: For many in Britain, blogging, especially political blogging, is a bit of a disappointment. Many of our political sites…
Bookmarks for September 28th
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 28th: The power of unconference at Helpful Technology – Steph's summary of the ukyouthonline unconference
How are young people using social media?
One of the highlights of yesterday’s UKYouthOnline unconference was Steph Gray‘s presentation of some Forrester research commissioned by DIUS on what online services are regularly used by young people. Steph has generously posted his slides on Slideshare: [HTML1]
UKYouthOnline up and running
It’s been a great start to the day at UKYouthOnline. You can follow the twitter back channel (no snarkiness spotted yet, must be a record) at and I’m uploading a few photos at Do join in by leaving…
Bookmarks for September 26th
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 26th: Ning Blog » Toward Youth 2.0 in the UK – Saturday's event and associated network is highlighted on the official Ning blog. Coolio.
Cool Local Gov Web Stuff
I have started a wiki to collect together resources and stories of where local government has used the web in interesting ways. You can find it at – please visit and add any bits you can think of. If…
Social media step 1: join a social network
This post is part of my ’10 Social Media Steps’ series. Find them all here. Introduction The first step in the social media journey is to go and find what other people you might know are up to. As well…
Dave @ NCVO Conference
I’m going to be running a session at the NCVO Information Conference on 24th November. I’m facilitating one of the practical workshops, playing the social media game to help delegates put some of what they have learned on the day…
Bookmarks for September 22nd
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 22nd: Circus clowns silenced by the licensing laws » Communities » 24dash.com – Another step towards ridding the world of the clown menace