Dave

Dave

  • Joined: January 6, 2026
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Win! Win! Win!

I was lucky, in a sense, to get this through the post today as a reward for subscribing to a magazine: “In a sense”, because I already own it. ‘So!’ I thought. ‘Here’s a chance for a competition!’ If you…

Getting noticed: The Five Step Programme

The second Wednesday guest post! Thanks to Sarah for this great post – if you’d like to contribute, just email me – and being called Sarah isn’t necessarily a requirement! Online communication isn’t always taken seriously. It’s a nice to…

Some interesting reading

Some dead interesting stuff popped up when I logged in this morning – all worth giving a read: Facebook buys FriendFeed Lots of people seem to be quite upset about this one. Friendfeed is still a pretty niche service, even…

LocalGovWeb – an exercise in aggregation

I put a tweet out last week pointing people to a new domain, www.localgovweb.com, asking people to complete the form it contained. I asked for people’s: Blog addresses and whether they would like their posts to appear in an aggregated…

GoogleLocalGov review

Here’s a list of some of the coverage of Friday’s event… I’ll keep it updated with everything I come across: Ingrid Koehler: Despite all the slickness and the fabulous hospitality, the day was kind of a near miss. Google knows…

How to make websites work

From Google’s LocalGov event today, Alex Nurenberg talked us through the steps you can take to make sure your website works – in other words that visitors find what they want quickly, especially when they come in via a search…

Dave @ Learning Pool

I am rather pleased to be able to let everyone know that I’m starting work for Learning Pool this month. For those that don’t know, Learning Pool provide e-learning services to the public sector, with a focus on local government.…

GoogleLocalGov tomorrow

The GoogleLocalGov event is taking place tomorrow, and by the sound of things it is going to be packed to the rafters with attendees and great content. Here is what topics will be being discussed by Google’s team of experts:…

MyPolice.org

This is the first of the series of guest posts here at DavePress, which will be coming each Wednesday for the next few weeks… Many thans to Sarah for taking the time out to write this! Less than a month…

Local Gov is self organising

As much as I enjoyed being involved in organising LocalGovCamp, when emails started to be sent to the group asking when the next one was, I was quick to distance myself from it. These things can take up a lot…

Guest post on DavePress

Things have been a little quiet on this blog of late – being on holiday didn’t help – but I guess I have just been rather busy doing stuff and haven’t had the chance to blog nearly as much as…

Bookmarks for July 11th through July 26th

Stuff I have bookmarked for July 11th through July 26th: Guide to Cross-Government Collaboration ~ Huddle – "Welcome to Huddle.net’s Guide to Collaboration for government and public sector. We tried to keep it simple, informative and agnostic." Open Atrium –…

WP Sauce

I threw this together this morning, it’s called WP Sauce: It simply pulls together the stuff people are bookmarking in Delicious about WordPress. I have added pretty much zero value to this, however, all the hard work was done by…

Bookmarks for June 3rd through July 4th

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…

Developing a community game

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…

#GoogleLocalGov

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…

Evaluating online engagement

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…

Be Vocal

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…