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An online notebook
Kind of Digital have a team (made up of me, Fraser Henderson and Tim Wilson) working with Lincolnshire County Council on an ERDF funded scheme to bring the latest digital technology to small businesses in rural and coastal locations. This…
Ever wanted to start blogging but just didn’t have the confidence in the technology or your ability to write lots of juicy content? Our new online course is here to help! Blogging bootcamp runs over the summer and is a…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Little J Beta – via @willperrin The limits of collaborative consumption: Would people really share their belongings? Blogging – why do it? | Amandacomms’s Blog Raspberry Pi: Baking Pi – Operating…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi Battle for the planet of the APIs Returning to Free Software: A Guide Robots and Robber Barons – NYTimes.com via…
I’m delighted to be helping out Community Lincs, the rural community development charity where I serve as a trustee, with their Summer of Surfing activity during the first week of July. It’s a neat idea, to encourage people to have…
This morning’s round table, held by EELGA with the support of Public-i, was an enjoyable couple of hours, hearing about how councillors and others involved in local democracy see the future of the role and the impact the internet and…
I’ve been publishing a few bits of writing in places other than this blog lately. Here’s an article I wrote for our local newspaper – the first of what will hopefully be a regular series: I’ve also written a couple…
This week we ran a webchat on the What Next for Localism site in partnership with NALC, on the topic of 21st century councillors. You can read the archive via the CoverItLive widget on that site. On Monday next week,…
From Jan Senderek, the founder of Loom, a photo management startup: Kids today who start out with iPads and iPhones will never or rarely be in touch with a file or a folder. They won’t care about the type of data…
I’ve almost completed a course on Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, or PTLLS. It’s partly to help me improve the work I do in training and running workshops, but also as the first step in the journey…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: hackpad – neat collaboration / wiki / collaborative editing thingy The BBC’s hi-tech failure: Don’t Mention It Catch up with Doug Belshaw’s Open Badges Learning Hour – Learning Pool Geneva E-Participation…
I’m spreading my wings a bit these days, trying to get involved in different pieces of work, in different fields. Not that I’ve given up on government, just that there’s other things I’d like to explore and have a go…
Video where the excellent Manuel Castells examines new social movements, new forms of change and political democracy in the global network society.
Great set of slides from Doug Belshaw explaining Open Badges. Can’t help but feel this could be a major win for – in particular – informal learning activity within communities. [slideshare id=22384852&style=border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px&sc=no] Open badges for learning: a new…
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Toe and HTTPS | Electronic Frontier Foundation The Dark Side of E-Books To the internet giants, you’re not a customer. You’re just another user – by @jjn1 meandering thoughts on the…
According to Doc Searls and David Weinberger: No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it. From World of Ends.
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: David Wilcox » As the Knowledge Hub faces closure, might a creative Twitter mob help with re-invention? the 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist Make and share useful lists | Gini Google…
Great talk from Sharon O’Dea: By moving information and services online, successful companies enable their staff to work from any location, and almost any device, so that work becomes what you do, not where you go. In this session, learn…
Neat video explaining how MailChimp use Evernote business to aid knowledge sharing and collaboration within their business.
Know Your Company, from 37 Signals, is a really interesting looking idea. As with all their products, from Basecamp to Highrise, it has resulted from scratching their own itch – in other words, solving a problem they had. 37 Signals…