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links for 2007-11-22
Knowledge management Great article from CIO Insight on knowledge management and how it can be done successfully. Thanks to Lee Hopkins for the link. (tags: km knowledge management)
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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links for 2007-11-18
Three types of community Ed Mitchell on 3 types of community: centralised, decentralised and distributed. Interesting reading. (tags: communities edmitchell)
links for 2007-11-15
LGSearch | Google Groups I have set up a Google Group to act as a mailing list for LGSearch, the public sector personalised search engine I developed and occasionally maintain. (tags: lgsearch googlegroups) MT Community Solution: Blogs Meet Forums 2.0…
Social Media Starfish
Nice graphical representation of the social media landscape, posted to Flickr by DBarefoot.
links for 2007-11-14
JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 Interesting collecion of academic articles from the “Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication”. Via Owen Blacker at MySociety. (tags: research socialnetworking academic web2.0 culture media)
Big Juicy Twitter Guide
Caroline Middlebrook has produced a guide to Twitter – what it is and why we should all be using it. Great stuff. Thanks to Phil Bradley for the link – I hadn’t come across Caroline’s blog before but am now…
links for 2007-11-13
CommentPress CommentPress is a WordPress theme that allows commenters to record their views against individual paragrahs of a post, thus making it a live consultation document. Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing it out. (tags: wordpress collaboration blog comments blogging…
links for 2007-11-12
It’s stunning, powerful and elegant… so set the iPhone free John Naughton’s Observer column on Apple’s iPhone (tags: iphone naughton observer apple) Jing Project: Visual conversation starts here. Mac or Windows. Jing is a service that allows you to create…
links for 2007-11-11
Not sensible, but, oh, the joy of it! Stephen Fry on the iPhone: “In the end the iPhone is like some glorious early-60s sports car. Not as practical, reliable, economical, sensible or roomy as a family saloon but oh, the…
Charlie Brooker: Agony Aunt
I love Charlie Brooker’s columns at The Guardian‘s Comment is Free site as much as I love his TV stuff. I’m just catching up on his posts after being offline for a while, and came across this gem: Years ago,…
links for 2007-11-10
Alex King: ShareThis 2.0 New version of the great Share This plugin for WordPress (amongst other platforms). It allows users to send links to their favourite social network or bookmarking site; or indeed to email or IM them to friends.…
Woken by a cat
Loving this! [youtube:]
Amping up WordPress
Quick presentation on improving a WordPress blog from Mark Jaquith: [slideshare 158924 amping-up-your-wordpress-blog-1194474703187376-3]
Sketchcast – social whiteboards
Sketchcast is a great little tool which allows you to record yourself drawing a sketch – whether roughly with a mouse or more accurately with a graphics pen – and you can add audio commentary too. Here’s a great example…
GroupsNearYou.com
Richard Pope has been working on a new social website for MySociety, called GroupsNearYou.com. Here’s how he explains it on his blog: For all the talk of social networking people forget that for a whole host of internet users have…
links for 2007-11-08
Tangler Tangler is a host of discussion forums with a difference – it acts more like an instant messaging platform than a traditional forum. Looks a cool way of getting discussion groups together quickly. (tags: web2.0 community collaboration chat forum…
Zoho’s CRM
I have been looking for a cheap, quick to implement and eay to use CRM (customer relationship management) system to use while a long term solution is identified. This led me to have a play with Zoho’s offering, which is…
links for 2007-11-07
HiveLive’s Social Networking Platform Puts Users in Control HiveLive is another service to use to create your own social network. Very useful for creating niche or sector specific online communities. There are a growing number of these available, keeping a…
Gordon Brown loves Countdown
It’s a fact: [youtube:] Thanks to Simon Dickson for pointing out this oddity. I suppose it’s a difficult line to tread, but this definitely falls on the “has he nothing better to do?” side of things.
BarcampUKGovweb
Am very excited about the forthcoming BarCamp for UK government web types. In fact, I think the remit is probably going to expand beyond government into all areas of not for profit web work. Jeremy Gould, of the Whitehall Webby…