An online notebook
Here’s another cool little tool. ifttt, or ‘if this, then that’ is a way of automating tasks across your social networks. It describes itself as ‘digital duct tape’. It basically allows you to set rules and actions to happen whenever you interact online. One example described on the site is creating a task that whenever … Keep reading
Apologies for the light blogging this week, I’ve been doing a lot of travelling about. Still, I came across Trello yesterday, a cool and lightweight planning tool. It allows you to create lists of actions, which can be filled in with all sorts of information, and dragged and dropped into different orders. Here’s a video … Keep reading
A quick note to mention some of the projects Kind of Digital is working on. CiviCrowd This is the name we have given to our WordPress-powered ideas crowdsourcing platform. South Holland District Council are going to be using the service to encourage people to suggest ideas for projects that will help their communities. This will … Keep reading
ACAS – the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, who you’ve probably heard of on news reports about negotiations between employers and unions – have published some guidance for employers on how to manage staff use of these sites at work. Smart phones, internet, tweeting, blogging – we have accepted all of these innovations, and many … Keep reading
I had a go at doing an email newsletter once before – put a signup form here on the blog, got quite a few people to subscribe, and then never got round to sending a single issue. Useless! Part of my trouble then was that I wasn’t that comfortable with the software. Recently though, for … Keep reading