Friday, 12 September, 2008

Bookmarks for September 10th through September 11th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 10th through September 11th: Development Drums – Owen Barder has started a podcast about development issues. Yay! Hex-to-RGB Conversion – Get the RGB equivalents of Hex colour codes in a jiffy Online color chart…

Thursday, 11 September, 2008

Is your organisation an Apple or a Google?

Nice post from Steve Rubel, comparing the approach taken by two hugely innovative companies to engaging with their customers: Google isn’t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they’re light years ahead of Apple – a…

LGSearch update

LGSearch is something of an anomaly in my ‘portfolio’ of stuff I’ve made in that is actually works and is useful. I built it a couple of years ago while working as Risk Management Officer at a County Council. Essentially,…

Wednesday, 10 September, 2008

Bookmarks for September 8th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 8th: Socialreporter | Organise social reporters? Up to a point. – Great post and discussion on David Wilcox's blog

Monday, 8 September, 2008

Digital dialogues third report

Am very late in writing about this, but am only just getting round to reading the third report produced by the Digital Dialogues project. This bit, from the Guidance and Recommendations section, is very nicely put: From our research we…

Bookmarks for September 7th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 7th: Beckenham Residents – Local action in Beckenham via a Ning social network site. Hat tip @lesteph

Sunday, 7 September, 2008

Saturday, 6 September, 2008

CivicSurf video now online

Shane has posted at CivicSurf the two parts of the online video version of the CivicSurf video, which I have included below, too. Why not email and ask for some actual DVDs you could show to your local councillors? [HTML1]…

Bookmarks for September 4th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 4th: paulcanning: How not to do video about recycling – Great notes from Paul on how local gov can make their video go viral (ie get people to actually watch it)

Thursday, 4 September, 2008

Communicosm

A short while ago, I wrote a little piece about a possible idea to enter into the Building Democracy competition, which was to create a social ‘directory’ of online community groups. I put directory in inverted comments because that isn’t…