Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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links for 2008-02-14

My Top 10 Essential Drupal Modules Steve Purkiss lists his favourite plugins for Drupal – some good stuff here. (tags: drupal modules)

Government offline

The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?…

the interruption

I’ve started a podcast! the interruption is going to be a weekly chat between me and someone doing something exciting in social media and web 2.0 in the UK. The first episode is a discussion with Paul Johnston of Cisco,…

links for 2008-02-13

How to Get Top Blogs to Notice You Chris Garrett on how to get the attention of other bloggers (tags: blogging)

links for 2008-02-12

WordPress Development Updates wpdevel.wordpress.com is a new Prologue-themed blog that will follow the release of WordPress 2.5 through frequent updates from various WordPress developers (tags: wordpress) A deep look to Firefox 3 Beta 3 : Mozilla Links Firefox 3 B3…

More on anonymous posting

Of course, in my earlier discussion about why anonymous posting is generally speaking a Bad Thing, I forgot to mention the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory: Sums it up perfectly for me.

On facilitation

Had a great meeting today with two of my fellow facilitators at the Community of Practice for Knowledge Management in the Public Sector (don’t worry, we’re working on the name). The community has been running for a little while now…

links for 2008-02-11

mozdev.org – deepest sender Deepest Sender is another blog editing Firefox extension, like Scribefire (tags: firefox blogging blog extensions editor) Welcome to QTM Open source multi-platform blog editor. Very much in development. (tags: blog opensource linux client mac editor blogging)…

On the Social Media Release

One of the many areas of communications which can be improved by using social media services is the press release. Indeed, there are a number of sites dedicated to creating a ‘social media release’, including a group blog and a…

I’m an ENTP!

At work we are having our personalities dissected through the wonder of Myers-Briggs. It’s a way of finding out how your personality affects the way you work, and how you interact with others. Hmmm. Anyway, it turns out that I…

links for 2008-02-10

Vodafone | receiver magazine Interesting online community from Vodafone, found via tweet from Neville Hobson. (tags: mobile magazine technology future design blog culture vodafone communication business community) BBC Internet Blog – MyCBBC Notes on the Beeb’s plans for a customisable…

Breaking down the browser barrier

The problems of accessing social websites is often discussed by government webbies, and I dare say it is an issue for the private sector too. How can we be expected to engage with online communities if they can’t get past…

CoComment

At some point in the near future, I promise that I will blog about something other than blog comments. I mean, I know it’s good to find a niche, but that one is a little specific even for me. Anyhow,…

More on comments

Following my last post about blog comments, a couple of posts have popped up in my feed reader about the topic. Firstly James Cridland ponders what makes him decide to leave a comment on a blog, or use his own…

Everyone needs a Dave

…including me. Jeremy Gould points us towards his latest bit of furniture – the ‘Dave‘: It’s a pretty handy looking laptop table, and only twenty quid from Ikea. Face it – every home should have a Dave.

On blog comments

How do you track the conversations that go on in comments around the blogosphere? It’s easy enough to know what the actual blogs themselves are doing, after all – we have our feed readers, Google’s blog search and technorati. We…

Polling day

Every day, WordPress and the community around it manages to surprise and delight me more. I have mentioned how it can be used to consult before, specifically by using the amazing CommentPress theme. But you can also create small polls…

barcampukgovweb Developments

The community that formed around the barcamp for uk gov web types (hence the name) has been working hard to start developing idea and connections that can start to have a real beneficial effect on the way that public services…

links for 2008-02-07

Google Spreadsheet Surveys Use Google Docs to run public surveys and consultations. Cool! (tags: survey tools interactive google) SurveyGizmo: WordPress Survey Plugin – Online Survey Tool Plugin that allows you to run surverys inside WP (tags: wordpress plugin survey plugins)…