An online notebook
I’ve given DavePress yet another facelift. This one is a lot lighter and hopefully more friendly too. Personally, I especially like the ‘adverts’ in the top right corner, pimping my social media wares, such as my newsletter, ReadWriteGov and LGSearch. There is still some tidying up to do, but I’m nearly there…
Tom Watson is making a list of people who aren’t yet on Twitter, but who ought to be for all our benefit. Stephen Fry (if it be he) has become an instant success using micro-blogging platfrom, Twitter. Life would be enriched if more of Britain’s treasured characters were sharing their daily thoughts with social networkers. … Keep reading
Helen Nicol writes an interesting post about how to get wikis taken up within organisations. Using Wikipedia as an example, she writes, is a bad idea, because it sets unrealistic expectations of the amount of content likely to be generated, and will also likely scare people away. Unfortunately, many companies begin their wiki experiments by … Keep reading
Great comment left by Maureen Charles of Cambridgeshire County Council on the ReadWriteGov blog, acting as a real reminder of why I started arranging these events and the value they can have: I was really impressed by the event in Peterborough. What resonated for me was all the ideas it gave for engaging young people. … Keep reading
I’ve just dug out an old 15″ flat screen monitor from a box and plugged it into my MacBook: The way I have it set up is to have email and twitter on the flatscreen, while having the actual work I am meant to be doing on the macbook screen. I’m finding it certainly helps … Keep reading