Adventures in open source land
I had a load of fun yesterday being a total geek and installing Ubuntu on a netbook I’ve have for a little while and which doesn’t get used an awful lot. It’s a Samsung NC10, which, as I mentioned in…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Whoopsie
Apologies if you have been confronted by a nonsensical post full of error messages from this site – something went wrong with my automated bookmark posting thingumy. Anyway, hopefully it won’t happen again. Update: it happened again. Sorry.
The Community Roundtable
I hadn’t come across this before, but the Community Roundtable looks like quite a useful resource. It describes itself as a virtual table where social media and community practitioners gather to meet, discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and hear from experts.…
Bookmarks for March 1st through March 5th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Microsoft’s No-Win IE6 Browser Mess – "But who really cares about browser market share other than the vendors and web developers?" For Open Government, Technology Is The Least of Your…
How to be an everyday innovator
Alongside watching James Graham Gardner’s book on innovation develop online, I was reminded recently about the concept of ‘everyday innovation’ – making innovation something that we all do in our day jobs, rather than something mystical and abstract which is…
Join the public sector learning community
Learning Pool’s annual conference is on 12th May, in London, and it promises to be a really great day. You can have a sneak peak of the agenda here (PDF warning). One of the speakers I am really looking forward…
Likeminds
I had an enjoyable time at the Likeminds conference in Exeter yesterday (Friday 26th Feb). Before I start going on about the content of the event, I really ought to praise the organisers for the amazingly smooth way the event…
Clouds and culture
Lloyd Davis is a lovely man, and a very clever one at that. He founded the Tuttle Club, a weekly networkingy sort of meetup for people who like the internet and other people, which is at the same time very…
Yet more gadding about
Another busy week, this one. On Wednesday, Learning Pool are hosting another local government breakfast meeting, at Coventry City Council’s offices. We’ll have a range of contributors from local authorities, as well as me. Details here – do come if…
Bookmarks for February 24th through February 28th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Likeminds 2010 – First thoughts and reflections « Carl’s Notepad – Carl's views on the Likeminds conference. ParticipationCamp – Advancing public participation in government by connecting government managers and staff,…