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An online notebook
A clipboard manager is an insanely useful bit of productivity kit. It’s one of those things that you may not know even exists, but once you start using it, you can never go back. A quick reminder: the clipboard is…
There are a lot of problems out there that need fixing. Some are big, and complicated. Others are quite small, and simple. Why not try picking one of the small and simple ones, and fix it? Back in 2007, I…
I’ve seen a few comments bouncing about Twitter and other places debating the meaning of the word digital, and why it hasn’t caught on in some places at all. I’ve also seen some people saying that ‘digital’ is an unhelpful…
The way to make things happen is to let them go. I learned this from hard experience. For the last three or four years I spent my time trying to build a business. It didn’t go very well. It turns…
Oh, goody. A new version of WordPress is out! WordPress 4.0 is here, and it’s packed with new features: New media manager Embedded media now visual within the editor The editor now works more smoothly, expanding as necessary to fit…
If you want to get people to use your service, get rid of the friction. This really hit home with me the other week, at an event I attended as part of my work at the Department of Health, which…
I’ve started putting an FAQ together for #VirtualGovCamp. Here’s the first effort. Any more questions? Ask in the comments… What is VirtualGovCamp? VirtualGovCamp is an event which will take place online for people with an interest in improving public services.…
Well worth a watch, what Howard Rheingold doesn’t know about online communities isn’t worth knowing.
Quick update – there’s now a placeholder site for #virtualgovcamp live at (it currently forwards to a wordpress.com blog) and a Twitter account @virtualgovcamp. At some point I will get all the content from the blog posts here replicated…
I’d like to propose VirtualGovCamp. I’ve just been made aware that the lovely folks at LocalGovDigital are themselves working on a local version of a virtual unconference type event. That should be awesome, but I think my idea is sufficiently different…