Great interview by David Wilcox with Clay Shirky – check it out here if the embed doesn’t work for you.
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Dave @ PSF
I’m going to be talking to a bunch of public sector folk on Thursday as part of a Public Sector Forums event entitled Public Sector Websites – Essential Issues for Managers, Developers and Others.
It should be a good day – as well as me, other speakers include:
- Gavin Woods – Business Development Manager, BrowseAloud
- Jack Pickard, Web Services Manager, Public Sector Forums
- Dan Champion – Champion Internet Solutions
- Simon Halberstam – ‘Weblaw’ & Partner, Sprecher Grier Halberstam LLP
- Simon Wakeman – Head of Marketing, Medway Council
- Peter Barton – Lincolnshire County Council
My bit is on ‘Social Networking and other Tools of Engagement’. Here’s the blurb:
Dave will begin to identify what the social web can do, and help equip the delegation with the skills and tools that will enable them to succeed using those tools.
Should be a good day. If you aren’t already booked up, what are you waiting for? 😉
Who to follow on Twitter?
There has been quite a bit of twitterfuss over the last week about Mr Tweet, a hideously named service which analyses your current network and then suggests new people that you ought to be following, amongst other snippets of information.
To get your report, all you need to do is follow Mr Tweet on Twitter, and then you get a direct message when your feedback is ready. I’m still waiting for mine.
Other places you can go to find cool people to follow includes my Govwebby list, or the Twitterpacks wiki, which has lots of different feeds listed in a directory structure, whether by topic or location. Worth checking out.
Another new DavePress look
I’ve given DavePress yet another facelift. This one is a lot lighter and hopefully more friendly too.
Personally, I especially like the ‘adverts’ in the top right corner, pimping my social media wares, such as my newsletter, ReadWriteGov and LGSearch.
There is still some tidying up to do, but I’m nearly there…
Who would you like to see on Twitter?
Tom Watson is making a list of people who aren’t yet on Twitter, but who ought to be for all our benefit.
Stephen Fry (if it be he) has become an instant success using micro-blogging platfrom, Twitter. Life would be enriched if more of Britain’s treasured characters were sharing their daily thoughts with social networkers. So I’m compiling a list of the 50 well known people who should tweet. Good, bad, charming, rude, the rogues and the pious, you name them and I’ll write to them over Christmas to urge them to join Twitter.
Add your suggestions in the comments on his post.