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Helen has launched a new community blogging project over at digtialengagement.org which aims to be: a collaborative space for all those interested in digital engagement to share ideas and agree priorities for action around digital engagement This is of a…
Timetric is a Cambridge based startup that, in their own words, is here to help you make sense of data. If you think about it, most of the numbers we come across every day are things like temperatures, prices, rates,…
From Moleitau on Flickr.
Neville writes about the latest service from Best Before – the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo – which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your…
Accessible Twitter takes Twitter and makes it more, er, accessible. Excellent work! Thanks to @littlelaura for the tip.
Mitch Sava of PolyWonk emailed me the other day with details of a really interesting event he is putting together with Simon Grice of Ideas.org, called OpenGov. Taking place in London on 22nd April 2009, OpenGov will be a practical…
My good friend Al Kitching writes a damn fine film review blog. He’s also doing something silly for charity: I’m being dropped into an “as yet undisclosed wilderness location” for five days of survival and adventure. The event will contain…
David has written about covering events again as part of his investigation of the role of the social reporter. He writes: So on the one hand it is more difficult to charge for the logistics, and on the other hand…
David’s blog post reminded me that I have been banging on to a lot of people about some vague idea which I’ve been calling ‘non-professionalism’. Basically, non-professionalism is the culture required to work effectively on the social web. If you…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 8th through March 14th: James Harkin on why gregarious online communities are a myth – Potentially interesting piece that turns out to be bereft of any kind of substance. Shame. How is this thing…
I’m going to be facilitating an online conference with Steve, Ingrid and others, which will be all about encouraging councillors to make better use of social web technology. It will be happening on a Community of Practice, meaning that there…
I just won one of these on ebay: It works, too. Can’t wait to have it up and running. Anyone up for a game of Chuckie Egg?
Effective Social Media & Web 2.0 Strategies for Local Authorities is a new event from Public Sector Forums, happening at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester on 30 April 2009. I have the pleasure of chairing the event, as well as giving…
I’ve just found out that my sister is on Twitter. Do say hello to her – I’m sure that as a press officer for a big charity, she’d love to hear how they can be using Twitter and other services…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 4th through March 8th: Finding a political navigator – Neville's thoughtful view on the Director of Digital Engagement post. How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology – Steph on sharing your code…
Cambridgeshire County Council have put up some videos on their YouTube channel from the leaders of the three main political groups on the Council. The aim of the videos are to encourage people to put themselves forward to become councillors.…
I wrote a little while ago about how council’s websites might look, and ventured the idea that perhaps all that is needed is a big search box. Look what Cheltenham Borough Council have got now! OK, so it isn’t the…
Last week, the Cabinet Office published a new action plan for government and open source, to level the playing field when it comes to procuring software. So we consider that the time is now right to build on our record…
Stuff I have bookmarked for February 26th through March 3rd: Getting Started: gadgets.* API – Gadgets – Google Code – Via @lesteph – create Google Gadgets to go on things like iGoogle pages. The Times & CUNY (and others) go…
…that is struggling with some of this stuff. Take a look at Phil Bradley’s marvellous post, railing against the attitudes of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals): The next section really did make my jaw drop. “In…