Dave

Dave

CoPping Off

I’ve recently started my own Community of Practice over on the I&DeA communities platform, entitled ‘Social Media and Online Collaboration’. It will be a good way of getting the message across to people who work in local government that the…

links for 2006-12-04

Smashing The Clock (tags: business productivity) Shockwave-Sound.Com – Royalty-Free Music tracks, loops and sounds (tags: audio free podcast podcasting)

links for 2006-12-01

instructables : Make the shutdown icon on your desktop and others. (tags: howto software tips windows)

links for 2006-11-30

crayonCast #3 (tags: blogging crayon podcast) The Real Office Live: Zoho Bridges Online And Offline Office Apps (tags: zoho office web2.0 techcrunch) Andrew Savory: The little things (tags: mac office keynote) Download of the Day: Any Video Converter (Windows) (tags:…

Blog break

Will be taking an enforced break from blogging for a while. I’m moving to a new house, which as yet doesn’t have a telephone line set up, let alone a broadband connection. Hopefully I’ll have things up and running again…

Quiet times ahead

After a pretty speedy burst of activity at the beginning, things are going to tail off for a little while here at LGNewMedia. I’m moving house this weekend, to a brand new place which hasn’t even got the phone connected…

links for 2006-11-29

Marjoleinâ?s Top 9 RSS Feed reader housekeeping secrets (tags: blogging rss feeds system:badutf8)

links for 2006-11-28

Owen’s musings » Blog Archive » My goals as a manager (tags: management) Marshall Kirkpatrick » Open Sourcing My TechCrunch Work Flow (tags: research howto blogs blogging rss) Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Let’s Just Declare TV Dead and Move…

Hello LGSearch readers!

Hello there to anyone who has clicked the Blog link from LGSearch. Rather than being directed to the LGSearch blog, you’ve been sent here, to visit the rest of the family. LGSearch matters will be discussed here, along with the…

Wikis and whatnot

Work continues apace on what is only the second day of LGNewMedia. While the four sections of the site all look very different, I’m hoping to add some consistency of visuals by producing a common logo, based on the one…

Hello world!

Well, this is the first post on the new LGNewMedia site. The site is in continual development to try and get everything tied in and a reasonably common theme across the board. So, what’s LGNewMedia all about? Well, we aim…

Findless

Simon Dickson, a consultant ‘bringing new media thinking to UK news and government’, has launched Findless (pronounced Find-less, rather than Findluss, which was my original reading!): a new editorialised search engine network. Why ‘findless’? Well, aside from hopefully being memorable,…

More LGSearch

LGSearch, my local government Google Coop effort, has proven pretty popular amongst people working in the sector – on the blog I’ve stuck up some of the nice things people have been saying. I’ve had some interesting discussions with Steve…

links for 2006-11-22

FeedDemon 2.1 released (tags: feeddemon blogging bradbury) Record VOIP calls (tags: skype voip software audio recorder podcasting tool)

links for 2006-11-18

PhilTube (tags: blogging blogs humor video) NewsPortal WordPress Theme Released (tags: theme wordpress blogging)

links for 2006-11-15

For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report (tags: podcast fir hobson holtz) BBC NEWS | Technology | User paid to uninstall Windows XP (tags: linux windows news dell)

Performancing Metrics to go Open Source?

Performancing Metrics, a great free service for bloggers to analyse how people are reading their stuff, is currently too expensive to maintain, and Performancing are considering taking it open source: The biggest pull on company resources is Metrics. Our pro-grade…

links for 2006-11-14

Popular Blog Posts (tags: blogging) Google Analytics Blog: Tip: A cross-segment for bloggers (tags: Analytics Google statistics Blogging traffic) The Long Tail, the Long Term and Your Blog (tags: blogging longtail rubel) You Only Live Once (tags: secondlife) Social and…