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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…

Conservapedia

The Guardian reports on ‘Conservapedia‘: A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they claim is “liberal bias” on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders…

Wikispaces

Wikispaces is excellent. I’ve moved the LGNewMedia wiki to there, from a self hosted MediaWiki. Technorati Tags: wikispaces, wiki, lgnewmedia

Wiki move

I’ve moved the LGNM Wiki to Wikispaces, having had a look round the Social Media wiki that David Wilcox runs. All the existing information has been copied across. The system I had been using, MediaWiki, is excellent,a nd I haven’t…

David Wilcox

I’m a regular reader of David Wilcox‘s blog, and if you aren’t at the moment, you should be. His posts are full of great stuff. He’s also the editor of a wiki which is chock-full of useful social media information.…

Announcing LGSearch.Gov.uk

I’ve been playing around a little more with Google Coop, and discovered that you can use wildcards when defining the sites you want to search. The way the standard LGSearch works is that I provide Google with a list of…