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An online notebook
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…
So, the announcement has been made, and the new Director of Digital Engagement is Andrew Stott. Andrew is currently Government Deputy Chief Information Officer. He has had director-level oversight within the Cabinet Office for the Power of Information work from…
WordCampUK – the only event in the UK dedicated to the joys of WordPress – will be taking place in Cardiff this year, on 18 and 19 July. You can find out all the details on the official blog, which…
I had the good fortune to finally meet Mary McKenna at the PSF event last week. Mary is the MD of Learning Pool, e-learning providers at large to the public sector. She is also on Twitter, and therefore must be…
I’ve being doing some work over the past few months with Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications in the UK. Much of the work has been around how they could use social web technology to work better internally, but I’ve also…
I had the pleasure of bumping into Fraser Henderson at the recent Digital Inclusion Conference, where he mentioned an event he was helping to organise with the Consultation Institute, called Technologies for participation. It’s on 21st May at the Holiday…
I’m delighted to be able to say that all the tickets for next month’s LocalGovCamp have been claimed. This is remarkable: all gone in just over a week! Many thanks for the enthusiasm so many people have shown. If you…
Image credit: Steven Tuck I had a remarkably fun time up in Manchester last week, chairing the Public Sector Forums event at Old Trafford about local government web 2.0 strategies. There was a whole lot of Twitter action during the…
John Naughton’s Observer piece this morning is a good one: The cultural agoraphobia from which most of us suffer leads us always to overemphasise the downsides of openness and lack of central control, and to overvalue the virtues of order…
I’m going to be speaking at and chairing an event run by Public Sector Forums this Thursday, which is going to be all about how local authorities could be using social web technology to reach out to citizens. I’m going…
Stuff I have bookmarked for April 19th through April 26th: Oh Yeah? Prove It. | Power Shift – Social Media Blog – Useful piece on measuring social media activity OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles : Tim’s…
On Monday and Tuesday of this week I will be spending a couple of days at the Digital Inclusion Conference, helping to make the event a little more, well, inclusive by doing some social reporting. It won’t just be me,…