Connecting through communities
I love the way that the social web creates connections between people, and allows us to pass those connections on to those that we think might be interested. I had a great chat today with a guy called Peter Haine…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
OrgLite – an open presentation
The Online Information conference is coming up again in December, and having attended it last year, I was determined to actually present something this time around. David Wilcox and I have been talking a great deal in recent times about…
Shine Unconference 2008
This weekend there is a really exciting event going on at the Bargehouse in London – it’s simply called Shine. For three days, The Bargehouse at the heart of London’s Southbank will host a mash-up gathering, an ‘Un’Conference that will…
Get satisfaction with your council
Jon Bounds has come up with another brilliant idea – using the ‘people powered customer support’ site GetSatisfaction to create a community around the services provided by Birmingham City Council. So, I thought, could this work for a local council?…
‘It’s not just video’ at DC10plus
My second post has appeared at the DC10plus blog, on some of the other, non-video elements of our social reporting experiment at the Digital Inclusion conference: By using tags in this way, it means that anyone can publish content and…
links for 2008-05-07
evoice home “evoice intends to enhance the interest and the engagement of European citizens in general political issues within a representative democracy.” (tags: edemocracy research europe engagement participation community online)
Youth Engagement Barcamp Postponed
Sadly the UK Youth Engagement Barcamp, planned for the 17th May, has been postponed, due to a lack of venue. This is a shame as I was really looking forward to what was bound to be a cracking event, but…
Nick Davies at Wolfson College
John Naughton links to an event taking place in Cambridge on 19th May: Nick Davies, a well-known and award-winning investigative journalist, has recently published Flat Earth News, a controversial and highly-critical analysis of the British news media in which he…
The real value of Flickr
Having an iPhone has really liberated me in term of the way that I use Flickr. This would be true of any phone with decent internet connectivity, and indeed there are plenty of handsets out there with better camera functionality…
Telling stories at DC10plus
As part of our work social reporting the Digital Inclusion conference last week, David and I agreed to write some posts building on what we had done on DC10plus’ own blog, which is hosted at WordPress.com . The first of…