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Day 1 of Councillors Connected

The first day of the Councillors Connected online conference was really successful, with some excellent contributions from a whole host of different people. Here are some of my highlights: A fantastic debate about the meaning of local to different people.…

Councillors connected

Over the next three days, a rather special event is taking place online – a virtual conference for council officers and members to learn about the benefits of using social media to engage with communities. It’s happening on the IDeA…

Bookmarks for March 29th through April 1st

Stuff I have bookmarked for March 29th through April 1st: WordPress › Post and Comment Growth « WordPress Plugins – Interesting looking plugin for wordpress mu to track activity on a blog network A Ladder of Citizen Participation – Sherry…

Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 28th

Stuff I have bookmarked for March 22nd through March 28th: jeecamp / FrontPage – Interesting looking event being run by Paul Bradshaw. ScholarPress – Set of plugins to make WordPress more useful in a learning environment. Sub Pages widget –…

EtherPad – cool collaboration tool!

EtherPad is a great tool for working with others on a document at the same time. As the website states: Other “real-time” editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds.…

Siôn Simon at All Together Now

The DIUS team here at All Together Now grabbed Further Education Minsiter Siôn Simon for a chat about how government can support the use of tech in education. Find more videos like this on All Together Now

Don’t link to us!

Public Sector Forums have an entertaining if slightly worrying list of government and other public sector sites whose terms and conditions try and restrict who can link to them.

People like video

In an article on the BBC Technology News page, I read about how the British web-going public are really getting into online video: British demand for online video sites has shot up over the past year, according to a new…

Bookmarks for March 15th through March 22nd

Stuff I have bookmarked for March 15th through March 22nd: Ben’s Experiments » James and the Giant Peach – The boy had to do an audio recording for his school project. I thought it was only fair to make it…