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Web 2.0 North of the Border

Duncan Stephan and Alex Stobart are building up an online resource for public bodies in Scotland to help them make the most of social web technology, with a blog called ScotWeb2. Building on the momentum of the successful barcamp-style event…

Backup! Backup!

Computing in the cloud is great: you get to keep all your data somewhere online, which means that you – and anyone you authorise – can get at it wherever you are. But there can be problems. One is of…

Helen Milner on open processes

I was delighted when UK online centres decided to make their bid for the Digital Mentor fund from CLG, inspired by the community initiative to take a policy initiative by the scruff of the neck over at DigitalMentor.org. Now the…

Snow business

The snow has made it a tricky week this week, with transport problems and the local school being closed. What’s more, just outside Cambridge, the snow is still falling on DavePress Towers. It’s quite pretty, mind. It’s hasn’t all been…

Weathering the storm with a blog

Looks you don’t have to have an environmentally friendly e-magazine to advise residents and local businesses about how to get through the recession. Carl Haggerty points to Devon’s Weathering the Storm site. Like Lincoln, they have got something up that’s…

Bookmarks for January 28th through February 1st

These are my links for January 28th through February 1st:

Localgovcamp

One of the real successes of Saturday’s government barcamp was the large turnout of local government folk, which was great to see. This has set me thinking that there must be sufficient numbers of peope who would be interested in…

Now, this is nice

Steph has posted about the work he has been doing getting the Power of Information Taskforce report online for interested folk to comment on it before it gets published. It’s a lovely piece of work: It is in fact a…

Barcamping today

This morning, over 130 people interested in the way government uses the web will be descending on London to, well, have a bit of a natter. There has already been plenty of chat on the event social network, and hopefully…

This is how it can be done

After all my moaning of recent times, a good news story. Lincoln City Council have released a site called Community Voice which links to all their ongoing consultations, with an RSS feed to keep up to date with new ones…