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Where do government and other public sector folk get their news from? Info4Local eGov Monitor GCN Kable Individual government department websites Any others? I wonder if there is a possibility for putting together a one-stop-shop for news, aggregating the popular…
Interesting news item this morning on eGov monitor: A new £4 million programme to help local authorities tackle climate change was announced by Environment Minister Phil Woolas and Local Government Minister John Healey today. The programme will spread existing best…
Dead Tree Web 2.0 Reading List – backpass version.. « backpass.org Matt Jukes’ take on the web 2.0 reading list (tags: matt+jukes, deadtreeweb2.0readinglist) Lifestream, but don’t tell me twice | jon bounds I guess this is what being made an…
I, like Nick Booth and presumably countless others, got an email from someone called Rohan Silva today, who has an @parliament email address. Rohan writes: I thought you might be interested in how Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson‘s speech yesterday…
The information authority is currently recruiting a Community and Stakeholder Manager. This is a great job, not least because it means you get to tell me what to do. Here’s some details: With senior-level communications and stakeholder-management experience in the…
Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister for web stuff, has been busy, first of all giving a speech on Government 2.0: Driving through the cultural change in all our communications that sees the internet, mobile and other new media as…
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Zuckerberg interview: What went wrong Great analysis by Jeff Jarvis (tags: facebook journalism) Data centres | Cool it! | Economist.com The Economist on the ecological issues around cloud computing, ie big data centres! (tags: economist…
…but they do have to be sensible about it. The UK blogosphere is getting jolly excited about the case of the Civil Serf blog (no point linking to it, it’s gone now) which has disappeared following mainstream media interest in…
Knowledge management is something that really interests me, and it’s something that I think governmental organisations at all levels in the UK need to start seriously addressing. Of course, being a social media fanboy too means that I like to…
From his column in Sunday’s Observer: Flickr’s designers also displayed a shrewd grasp of the essence of Web 2.0 thinking – namely that the big rewards come from making it easy for other developers to hook into your stuff. So…
There are a number of books out there which are covering a lot of the stuff I am interested in with regard to the web and collaboration. It might be worth coming up with a reading list – how about…
Steve Dale writes about the need for organisations to consider the cultural as well as the technological issues around collaboration and communication using the web” An excellent posting from Shawn over at Anecdote about fostering a collaboration culture. A good…
It was interesting to see the results of the little poll I have been running in my sidebar recently regarding how people read posts on this blog. Out of the 25 votes cast, only four people responded that they read…
I wondered last week about the ways we can use online tools to collaborate on projects – I had on my mind the etoolkit that David Wilcox (and now Beth Kanter, Emma Mulqueeny, Alex Stobart, Nancy White and Steve Dale…)…
kstoolkit » KS Methods Nancy White’s list of knowledge management tools. Great resources, and part of an excellent wiki (tags: km knowledge+management wiki resource tools) Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Open Tool Kits for Social Media Trainers…
David Wilcox and I had a meetup earlier this week, where we talked about the different ways that organisations need to be approached in terms of how they might make use of social media and web 2.0 stuff – or…
BBC NEWS | School blanks out faces of pupils A child protection group has criticised a primary school in Essex for blurring the faces of pupils on its website. (tags: online risk children identity) Extension:SocialProfile – MediaWiki Build social networking…
I really like the idea of using the web to bring people together and work on problems out in the open, rather like David Wilcox and Simon Berry did in their bid for the Innovation Exchange project. They used Drupal,…
Erm, no thanks.
Another slice of Common Craft genius. [youtube:] Thanks to Paul for the link – via Twitter, of course!