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An online notebook
The Department for Communities & Local Government did some great work in engaging people with the Empowerment White Paper entitled Communities in Control. Some of the activity included a blog, forum, Twitter feed, online video and photos hosted on Flickr.…
I’ve spent my last two Saturdays at events running social media surgeries. I nicked the idea from Birmingham Blogger extraordinaire Pete Ashton, who has a regular afternoon spot in a cafe, where folk can come and ask quick questions about…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 29th through October 5th: Porn posted on Damilola web forum – Another demonstration of why you have to be always vigilant when managing online communities – especially on high profile sites. Ed Mitchell: Platform…
One of the great about using a blog as a publishing platform is the flexibility of it. Every blog platform worth its salt has a editor built into it, a place online where you can type your stuff and hit…
Lovely piece in Prospect this month from Peter Jukes, talking about the occasionally fractious community of Democrat bloggers in the US: For many in Britain, blogging, especially political blogging, is a bit of a disappointment. Many of our political sites…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 28th: The power of unconference at Helpful Technology – Steph's summary of the ukyouthonline unconference
One of the highlights of yesterday’s UKYouthOnline unconference was Steph Gray‘s presentation of some Forrester research commissioned by DIUS on what online services are regularly used by young people. Steph has generously posted his slides on Slideshare: [HTML1]
It’s been a great start to the day at UKYouthOnline. You can follow the twitter back channel (no snarkiness spotted yet, must be a record) at and I’m uploading a few photos at Do join in by leaving…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 26th: Ning Blog » Toward Youth 2.0 in the UK – Saturday's event and associated network is highlighted on the official Ning blog. Coolio.
I have started a wiki to collect together resources and stories of where local government has used the web in interesting ways. You can find it at – please visit and add any bits you can think of. If…