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Be less boring
I wasn’t sure whether or not to blog about this. But I think I ought to, simply because this is such a cracking example of how badly digital engagement can be, and how easy it could be made much better.…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
If you don’t do it, someone else will
Here’s more proof. Birmingham City Council are asking for people’s views on their ‘Big City Plan’. They have even created a website to help people to do so. I asked Jon Bounds, Birmingham blogger extraordinaire, what was wrong with the…
The search for shared meaning
…was the title of the talk I was asked to give at the Central London Branch of the British Computer Society last Thursday. Here are my minimalist* slides: The search for shared meaning View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.…
6 days to stop MPs concealing their expenses
A quick repost of an important message on the MySociety blog: Uh oh. Ministers are about to conceal MPs’ expenses, even though the public hasjust paid £1m to get them all ready for publication, and even though the tax man…
Bookmarks for January 11th through January 14th
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 11th through January 14th: Social reporting: some more tips and thoughts – "You need to remember there are several different audiences for any event and this should guide you as to the way you…
Life must go on in Gaza and Sderot
…is the title of a wonderful blog, which describes itself thus: This blog is written by 2 friends. One lives in Sajaia refugee camp in Gaza and the other lives in Sderot, a small town near Gaza on the Israeli…
Dave @ BCS
I’m going to be talking to the good folk at the Central London branch of the British Computer Society this Thursday, on the topic of The Search for Shared Meaning: How Social Media Changes Everything: Blogs, online video, photo…
Open Source Schools
Open Source Schools is a site that launched sometime last summer, I think, but has now had quite a bit of a makeover. It’s chock full of great advice and resources on how schools can make use of open source…
What is Twitter for?
Whenever I mention Twitter to anyone who wasn’t previously aware of it, the first question they ask is always ‘What is it for?’ Like many social web services, it can be difficult to explain the concept of Twitter. I find…
Bookmarks for January 7th through January 10th
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 7th through January 10th: iGov – The Atlantic (January/February 2009) – How geeks are opening up government on the Web 21st Century Learning: The Art of Building Virtual Communities – "The burning question for…