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Mike Arrington writes about WriteWith, a collaborative writing authoring platform which combines wikis, forums and ajax document editing. Once you have finished writing, the document can be exported to MS Office or Openoffice.org format, or even published to a blog.…

The Cabinet Office are launching a review into how social media can improve public engagement and empowerment: Minister for the Cabinet Office Hilary Armstrong wants Government to harness the phenomenon of internet advice sharing sites and empower people with information…

Oliver Kamm in The Guardian: In its paucity of coverage and predictability of conclusions, the blogosphere provides a parody of democratic deliberation. But it gets worse. Politics, wrote the philosopher Michael Oakeshott, is a conversation, not an argument. The conversation…

Tim O’Reilly has posted a draft of a bloggers’ code of conduct. Let’s have a look at it. We celebrate the blogosphere because it embraces frank and open conversation. But frankness does not have to mean lack of civility. We…

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So, the first bit of advice I gave was to read more blogs. How exactly can you do that? The joy of RSS The great thing about blogs is that they produce RSS feeds. And the great thing about RSS…

I wanted to set up a free blogging account for a little project I’ve been wanting to start for a while and I thought I would give the all new Blogger a go. I wish I hadn’t. I must have…

Paul Stamatiou points out that Gaim, the open source and multi-protocol instant messaging client, is now going to be known as ‘Pidgin’. Sigh.

My last post was about some of the benefits that wikis can have for an organisation. Of course, one of the issues with wikis is the fact that you have to get the agreement of your IT department for them to…

As every day goes by, I am becoming a bigger fan of the wiki form. It’s not ideal in every scenario, but I really believe that every organisation should have at least one. Here’s five ways local gov can use…

Here’s a list of good stuff you can do when starting out with a blog. I’ll follow this post up in the future tackling each of them in a little more detail. If you would like to discuss starting a…

Those of you who visit this site by the main URL, , will have noticed a different layout to the homepage. Rather than jumping straight to the blog, I’ve installed a static home page, with the blog entries a mere…

Now, I love BlogJet. But why is it that whenever I load it up, it’s always in a small window, no matter what size it was when I closed it last? And then, when I click to maximise the window,…

TechCrunch announces that Yahoo! Mail now offers unlimited storage – obviously a better deal than Gmail’s 2.8–odd gb. One feature beaten – now all Yahoo! have to do is get rid of the horrible graphical adverts, allow pop access to…

I launched the latest project under the LGNewMedia banner yesterday, a social bookmarking site for local government called LGKnowledge. It’s based on Pligg and works just fine – the only issue will be getting enough people using it to make…

I’m pretty excited about this. LGKnowledge is a new site I’ve developed to try and provide a solution to the problems that search engines produce, which I discussed in this post. In a nutshell, that problem is that search engines – even targetted ones…

I thought it might be of use to people as an introduction to social media tools if I produced a list of some of the stuff I use on a regular basis. So here goes. I use FeedDemon to read…

Scribd is a cool service which acts as a YouTube for documents. To quote their FAQs: Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. We make use of a…