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Stuff I have bookmarked for June 3rd through July 4th: I want to – Phil Bradley's awesome blog of web 2.0 tools and services. Online debate community for logical, passionate people – CreateDebate – CreateDebate is a social tool that…
I have run the social media game many times now, and it always turns out differently and is always rewarding, and interesting. Basically, it is learning and FUN! Here is a PDF of the cards I used, which I put…
Do you work in local government? Are you free on 7th August? Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices? Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of…
I’ve mentioned before that we all really need to start evaluating the online engagement stuff we’re all doing. Alice Casey‘s presentation provides some great pointers for where to start and what to consider: My main argument was that a good…
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett, Worstword Ho (1983)
Be Vocal is A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful. It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from…
Nice video from Google explaining the forms function in Docs‘ spreadsheets, which I have found my self starting to use rather a lot.
Image credit: Arun. LocalGovCamp last Saturday was a marvellous day, lots of great conversations and everybody seemed to have a good time. David Wilcox caught up with me just before lunch for a chat about how things were going: There…
I can’t think of much other than LocalGovCamp now. Am literally widdly with excitement at what will be a fabulous day. Despite the disappointment of a few folk having to drop out at this late stage, the demand for places…
Dom at FutureGov has launched the FutureGovNetwork: We have developed this site as a really straight forward, open and easy to use place to start to capture those things that we all do to improve public services – share stuff…
Video hosting is always a bit of a bother, as no one service does it all, as far as I am aware. I did a fair bit of social reporting last week, and am already running into difficulties in finding…
Has it really been two weeks since I last posted here? Well, I’ve been busy, doing stuff. I promise. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the stuff I would normally have been writing about here during the whirlwind of…
Stuff I have bookmarked for May 17th through June 1st: They Want To Work For You Wiki – "Anyone can edit this directory of candidates standing for the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." mySociety » Blog Archive »…
Much planning is afoot for LocalGovCamp, the unconference for local government which is taking place on 20th June in Birmingham. All tickets are technically sold out, but if you are desperate to come, email me. I took a wander around…
Google have announced something really rather interesting called Wave. (Warning: looooooong video) Essentially, A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared.…
A year or so ago, I wrote about my dead tree web 2.0 reading list, which was all about what books were being published about the interactive web. I’ve bought most of those on the list, plus a bunch of…
Here is a really interesting presentation on how elements of games can help engage people within a community – and therefore also, possibly, a process. Putting the Fun in Functional View more OpenOffice presentations from amyjokim. Thanks to Rich Millington…
Will, Dom and Kalv are starting something that has the potential to become really rather cool. So where are we going with this? Well we want to know if hyperlocal people in the UK are up for some sort of…
Us Now is “A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet” and it’s also rather good. Even better, you can now watch all 60 minutes of it. Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo. Once…
Stuff I have bookmarked for May 4th through May 16th: Baby steps in Social Media News Releases – "The Social Media News Release (SMNR) updates the old press notice and video news release for a social media age. Factual bullet…