Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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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…

Hello world!

I know, I know. It seems like I start a new blog every 5 minutes. But this is different. This time, I’m staying put. The whole FEconnect thing didn’t work for me, in the end. This was a big shame,…

FEconnect posts

Have added a few posts to my new FEconnect blog already: In defence of Wikipedia Google Attacks Microsoft Building Online Communities with Drupal Tags: feconnect

Success!

Well, I was successful in my interview. So, from sometime in October, I will be a Change Manager at the Information Authority. My role is going to be a really exciting one: Establishing, supporting and maintaining communities of providers and…

Success!

Well, I was successful in my interview. So, from sometime in October, I will be a Change Manager at the Information Authority. My role is going to be a really exciting one: Establishing, supporting and maintaining communities of providers and…

Every community needs a killer app

Tomorrow is a big day for me – I have an interview for a new job outside of local government but still in the public sector which is going to make me heavily involved in community building, both on and offline.…

Lee Hopkins on Social Media

Great video of Lee Hopkins pouring forth his spot-on views on how social media can be used within corporate communications. Everything he says can be applied to inter-organisation communication and collaboration too. [youtube bYrcY2Wc17o]

Google: Not just Search

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people reading this blog that Google provides a number of services other than their traditional business area of web search. Many of the tools can be used as part of an online…

Introducing Blogbase

Blogbase is a new wiki I have started to put together resources on blogging, for beginners right through to seasoned bloggers. Feel free to check it out, and please sign up to help build up the wiki! Cross posted from…

Sphere – finding related content

There are a number of ways that content providers can make related information available to readers. One such method is to provide tags on posts which link through to services like Technorati or del.icio.us, so that items which other people…

Facebook: Social Network Domination?

There’s mounting evidence that Facebook is becoming not just the preeminent social network, but a platform through which the rest of the web is viewed. Take Robert Scoble’s view, who sees Facebook as a ‘data black hole’: I added the WordPress…