Ning
Ning is a great platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discussions, upload photos and videos and…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave
Is Search Broken?
Tom Foremski over at Silicon Vallery Watcher points out the things that annoy him about search: – There are many publishers that try to make sure their headlines catch the attention of the search engines rather than catch the attention…
Feedable
Feedable is a nice online news aggregator. As well as having your own feeds, it also provides information on hot topics of conversation in a variety of subjects. Thanks to Steve Rubel for pointing it out. Tags: feedable, steve+rubel
FeedDemon/Newsgator Problem
Hmmm. FeedDemon has starting playing up all of a sudden. It claimed not to be able to connect to my NewsGator account a couple of times, despite the credentials being correct, and refused to do anything. So, I removed the…
Screencasting
Thanks to Steve Dale for pointing me in the direction of Blueberry Software and their BB Flashback range of screencasting tools. Steve has just finished a screencast of the IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform using the full blown version of…
New Wiki Section
I’ve started a new page on the LGNewMedia wiki, called the Local Government Blogger Directory. I’m working from a pretty liberal definition of what ‘local government’ means so feel free to chuck in anything that comes even close to the…
nfp 2.0
Thanks to David Wilcox for pointing me in the direction of nfp 2.0, Steve Bridger’s blog about ‘How not-for-profits can benefit from blogs and social media’. A great addition to my blogroll.
From the Archives
Since cobbling together all the various posts from my previous blogs into this one, I came across a few posts that surprised me by being quite interesting! My Top Ten Websites and services Living without the Desktop Things I Use My 10 thoughts…
BlogJet 2.0
BlogJet was always my favourite blog editor when I used Windows regularly. I was pretty annoyed when version 2 was released not long ago, as by then I had made the transition to Ubuntu. I’ve so far failed to find anything…
Lib Dems Love WordPress
A couple of weeks ago, I noted the new Lib Dem’s manifesto website, which pleased me as it ran on WordPress. Well, thanks to Guido I have come across two more WP powered sites maintained by the Liberal Democrats. The…