Dave

Dave

ReadWriteGov Update

Bookings are flying in for ReadWriteGov, the social media shindig I am organising along with Fran Paterson, which will be held at Peterborough City Council on 29th October. Responding to a bit of feedback I have received, I have added…

Bookmarks for September 16th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 16th: Cool HTML to BBCode Converter v. 1.2 – Want to copy and paste a blog post into a forum without having to manually change your tags to bbcode? This'll do it for you.

10 Social Media Steps

10 Social Media Steps is a guide to how people with very little experience get get engaged with social web tools. Taking in a whole range of different services, from social networks to photos sharing to social bookmarking and blogging,…

Teacamping this Thursday

Teacamps are the bi-weekly get togethers of people interested in government and the web, which emerged from January’s Barcamp. I don’t get along nearly as often as I would like – something that will hopefully change now I have a…

Software Freedom Day

Next Saturday (September 20th) is Software Freedom Day: Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using…

Bookmarks for September 13th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 13th: Knowledgebase: ICT Hub Knowledgebase – I put a call out on twitter for a UK version of techsoup.org and @LouiseBrown came up with this! wikiHow – The How-to Manual That You Can Edit…

Sticky posts in WordPress

Recently it was announced over at WordPress.com that a new feature had arrived – the ability to have ‘sticky’ posts on your blog homepage. Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or…

Bookmarks for September 12th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 12th: Laconica – Trac – Open source micro blogging platform How to Start a Local Support System Using Social Media – Mashable – Great guide on making a difference with web tools Council leader…