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Government 2010 kicks off in London in a couple of hours, and it’s going to be all-liveblogging, courtesy of Davepress and Timetric, all the time this morning. Here’s the agenda: 9.00am – 9.15am Opening Remarks: Jeffrey Peel, Government 2010 9.15am…
Awesomeness off of the internet for October 18th to October 21st: Soup – Publish, collect, share. – "Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events."…
My Kindle arrived today. For those that don’t know, it’s Amazon’s own e-reader, a portable device that can hold around 1,500 books in its memory which can be read by turning pages using the buttons. Even though I knew the…
Hello! I’m Andrew Walkingshaw, and I’m going to be deputising for Dave at the Government 2010 conference tomorrow. I’ll be liveblogging the event for you all, both here and as @walkingshaw on Twitter. I’m the business guy at Timetric. We’re…
Headstar reported the other day about the progress of the piece of legislation that will mandate local authorities to set up systems allowing residents to create e-petitions, and to respond to such petitions. Under the ‘Local democracy, economic development and…
Why do so many councils have such a poor online presence? I’ve written before about some of the missed opportunities, such as here, but for me the puzzle is as much “what should a council do?” as “why don’t more…
Government 2010 looks like it will be a lot of fun. It’s a conference about the future of government: Government 2010 is about improved government communications and more rapid delivery of services to citizens via the web, and web-enabled channels.…
Neville writes a post about Twitter lists, some new functionality recently released to users. An official blog post trailed it last month. Neville’s quite positive about it, and indeed it may well work for a lot of people. My view…
Awesomeness off of the internet for October 14th to October 18th: Confusing menus and links: the web’s biggest challenge – "To make menus and links simpler you have to think like a customer. You also have to reduce the number…
Tim Davies has posted an excellent response to my post on the myths of engaging with everyone. Recommended reading, and a great example of the quality of debate and content using blogging as a conversational medium (well, on Tim’s side,…