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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…

Re-order posts in WordPress

One of the features of a blog is that the posts appear in reverse-chronological order – that is to say, with the latest content first. But there are times when that might not always be appropriate. Let me give you…

Bookmarks for September 10th through September 11th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 10th through September 11th: Development Drums – Owen Barder has started a podcast about development issues. Yay! Hex-to-RGB Conversion – Get the RGB equivalents of Hex colour codes in a jiffy Online color chart…

Is your organisation an Apple or a Google?

Nice post from Steve Rubel, comparing the approach taken by two hugely innovative companies to engaging with their customers: Google isn’t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they’re light years ahead of Apple – a…

LGSearch update

LGSearch is something of an anomaly in my ‘portfolio’ of stuff I’ve made in that is actually works and is useful. I built it a couple of years ago while working as Risk Management Officer at a County Council. Essentially,…

Bookmarks for September 8th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 8th: Socialreporter | Organise social reporters? Up to a point. – Great post and discussion on David Wilcox's blog

Digital dialogues third report

Am very late in writing about this, but am only just getting round to reading the third report produced by the Digital Dialogues project. This bit, from the Guidance and Recommendations section, is very nicely put: From our research we…

Bookmarks for September 7th

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 7th: Beckenham Residents – Local action in Beckenham via a Ning social network site. Hat tip @lesteph

Local community networks with Ning

I’ve always been a little uncertain of Ning, the service that allows you to create your own social networks. I’m not sure why: possibly a comination of them looking rather samey (certainly in the early days), and being – to…