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New books
Yet more dead tree web 2.0 reading… And yes, that is WordPress for Dummies – it’s a great book with tonnes of stuff for newbies and experienced WordPressers alike – recommended!
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Saturday, 14 February, 2009
Wednesday, 11 February, 2009
Twitter in slides
Marvelous explanatory presentation by Paul Bradshaw about Twitter – share it with the unbelievers! Twitter for beginners View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: journalism bcumedia)
Monday, 9 February, 2009
How close is local?
Paul Evans kindly asked me to write a post for the Local Democracy blog. I came up with one called How Close is Local? I live in a house on a street, in a village, within a parish, that is…
Saturday, 7 February, 2009
Bookmarks for February 2nd through February 7th
These are my links for February 2nd through February 7th:
- Social Innovation Lab Kent - "SILK is a way of working that puts people and their everyday experiences at the centre of policymaking and service design."
- digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - "This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively."
- Passenger Focus - Putting Rail Passengers First - "We are an independent public body set up by the Government to protect the interests of Britain's rail passengers."
- Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise - "Clay Shirky, leading commentator on internet technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody, last night backed away from his earlier enthusiasm for the online wisdom of crowds in democratic decision-making. He suggested that Government use of social media should focus more on “small groups of smart people arguing with each other”, than national-scale engagement online."
- City of Lincoln Council - Planning & Building Control - Plan - Lincoln Council provide Google Map of planning applications on there site - data courtesy of planningalerts.com - good work all round!
Ideas for blog posts
Paul Bradshaw has twelve (count ’em!). I wrote about some here. Or there is always my (mostly up-to-date) blogging guide: Better Blogging Publish at Scribd or explore others: Technology How-To Guides & DIY ebook blogging
Web 2.0 North of the Border
Duncan Stephan and Alex Stobart are building up an online resource for public bodies in Scotland to help them make the most of social web technology, with a blog called ScotWeb2. Building on the momentum of the successful barcamp-style event…
Friday, 6 February, 2009
Backup! Backup!
Computing in the cloud is great: you get to keep all your data somewhere online, which means that you – and anyone you authorise – can get at it wherever you are. But there can be problems. One is of…
Helen Milner on open processes
I was delighted when UK online centres decided to make their bid for the Digital Mentor fund from CLG, inspired by the community initiative to take a policy initiative by the scruff of the neck over at DigitalMentor.org. Now the…
Snow business
The snow has made it a tricky week this week, with transport problems and the local school being closed. What’s more, just outside Cambridge, the snow is still falling on DavePress Towers. It’s quite pretty, mind. It’s hasn’t all been…
Wednesday, 4 February, 2009
Weathering the storm with a blog
Looks you don’t have to have an environmentally friendly e-magazine to advise residents and local businesses about how to get through the recession. Carl Haggerty points to Devon’s Weathering the Storm site. Like Lincoln, they have got something up that’s…
Sunday, 1 February, 2009
Bookmarks for January 28th through February 1st
These are my links for January 28th through February 1st:
- UK GovCamp 09: a sense of progress - Fabulous roundup of Saturday's event from that man Simon Dickson
- FeedDemon to Sync with Google Reader? - This is potentially fabulous news. Google Reader is so much better than Newsgator's online offering...
- Advice to a new Tuttle-meister « The Tuttle Club - How to run your own Tuttle-like club
- About my Final IT Project « Fiona’s Final IT Project - "I am currently completing a final project module for an MSc in Business Information Systems Management at Middlesex University in order to further develop a very keen interest in Information Systems. I have created this blog in order to journal my progress and research findings from first-cut proposal to final draft. I hope you can join me on my journey."
- The Social Media Exchange - The WordPress based social reporting site I put together for this great event.
Localgovcamp
One of the real successes of Saturday’s government barcamp was the large turnout of local government folk, which was great to see. This has set me thinking that there must be sufficient numbers of peope who would be interested in…
Now, this is nice
Steph has posted about the work he has been doing getting the Power of Information Taskforce report online for interested folk to comment on it before it gets published. It’s a lovely piece of work: It is in fact a…