101 cool tools: Paper.li
This is a new regular series of posts where I highlight a cool online service that you may or may not have heard of. Whether I ever make it to 101 is debatable I feel… I’ve also set up a…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Open source and government
Another post I have been sat on and chewing over for a little while… Charles Arthur in the Guardian highlighted an interesting area of discussion in the use of open source in government a little while ago. He reports on…
Bookmarks for September 20th through October 1st
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Social intranets: Enterprises grapple with internal change – Great stuff on deploying social tech within big organisations. Open Government Licence – "You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information…
Guidance for councils on publishing data
The LG Group have today launched a feedback site to get views on the draft guidance that has been developed for councils on the based ways to approach publishing open data. As the site says: Many authorities already publish considerable…
DavePress podcast 3 – Tim Davies
Finally, the third DavePress podcast! Here I chat to Tim Davies of Practical Participation about open data and his research into the subject. [audio:] If you can’t, or don’t want to, use the flash player, you can download the .mp3 instead or subscribe…
Learn WordPress.com
WordPress is a great bit of software, and by far the easiest way to get up and running with it is to use the usually free hosted version at WordPress.com. It’s even easier to get started than ever, with Learn…
Phones, phones, phones
To probably misquote Stephen Fry: “Was there ever a smartphone that I didn’t buy?” As I posted a little while ago, I’m pretty happy with the Nexus One. Android is a nice, feature rich, open operating system, and the hardware…
YouChoose
In what looks like a pretty interesting collaboration between what was the LGA Group and YouGov, YouChoose is an online budget simulator that: encourages members of the public to consider where council budget cuts should fall, where efficiencies might be…
Technology, learning and knowledge
I had a good time up in Scotland last week, and enjoyed putting together and delivering my talk at the Learning Pool event we ran – which saw a great turnout. My discussion focused on the use of technology in…
Getting crowdsourcing right
Steph has a great post about crowdsourcing in government: It’s human nature to want to work on your own projects, rather than those imposed upon you. It’s human nature to want to earn recognition, intellectual satisfaction and a good living…