Dave

Dave

2 screens = more work done?

I’ve just dug out an old 15″ flat screen monitor from a box and plugged it into my MacBook: The way I have it set up is to have email and twitter on the flatscreen, while having the actual work…

Lots of new Voicebox content!

It’s good to see plenty of new content being added to the Voicebox blog – the home of the UK online centres and Citizens Online bid for the CLG digital mentor fund. For example, Mike Amos-Simpson on ‘What is Open…

New media for a new generation

I spent a very enjoyable day today at an event co-organised by Opportunity Links and 4Children. It was a good chance to listen to some interesting and challenging content about the social web and what young people are actually doing…

The human intranet

Andy Gibson, one of the chaps behind School of Everything, Mind Apples and his own consultancy business Sociability, made a couple of cracking presentations last Monday at the NCVO Information Management event. Sadly I didn’t get to see either as…

Collaborating on Digital Mentors with Voicebox

I am enjoying helping with the Voicebox bid for the CLG digital mentor project: those involved like Helen, Anne and Ben from UK online centres are so enthusiastic and eager for the open, collaborative approach they are taking to succeed.…

Bookmarks for November 12th through November 25th

Stuff I have bookmarked for November 12th through November 25th: Government Connect benefits realisation fund – The Government Connect network enables secure data sharing across local and central government, helping to make the process more efficient, and ultimately resulting in…

Social Media game at NCVO

I had a fun day today at NCVO running a couple of workshops involving the social media game, a great way to put tools into some organisational context. A few participants asked where they could get a copy of the…