Disposable online chat
TinyChat is a really cool new service that lets you create simple chatrooms on the fly within your browser. Why is this useful? Well, say you want to get a bunch of people together for a chat, but you don’t…
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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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The Conservatives’ ‘Honest Food’ campaign
Yesterday morning, the Conservative Party launched a new campaign for ‘honest food’ – which is all about labelling food with its country of origin. They do have a rather nice video: I don’t usually drift into party political stuff on…
Blogging Tsar
The advert is up for the UK government’s Director of Digital Engagement. It looks like an exciting role with stacks of potential. Steph has already started to crowd source what it is that whoever gets the job should start doing.…
Convening through reporting
David Wilcox has published another great thought-piece on social reporting and exactly what it is and where it fits: I’m delighted to find there’s increasing interest in social reporting around events … which may start with an enquiry about how…
Social media skunkworks?
My good friend Robert Brook – one of the most active and entertaining people I follow on Twitter – was recently interviewed by Chris Dalby, and it was caught on video. In it, Robert discusses the work he does at…
Working better together
An awful lot of the posts I write here on DavePress are focused on external communication and collaboration – how organisations can engage and consult better with other people using the web. But there is massive potential in using social…
Upgrading WordPress
With the release of WordPress 2.7.1, I realised it is about time I upgraded this blog to the latest version – not least since having played with it on some other sites I work on, I have realised how awesome…
New books
Yet more dead tree web 2.0 reading… And yes, that is WordPress for Dummies – it’s a great book with tonnes of stuff for newbies and experienced WordPressers alike – recommended!
Twitter in slides
Marvelous explanatory presentation by Paul Bradshaw about Twitter – share it with the unbelievers! Twitter for beginners View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: journalism bcumedia)
How close is local?
Paul Evans kindly asked me to write a post for the Local Democracy blog. I came up with one called How Close is Local? I live in a house on a street, in a village, within a parish, that is…