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Twitter in slides

Marvelous explanatory presentation by Paul Bradshaw about Twitter – share it with the unbelievers! Twitter for beginners View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: journalism bcumedia)

How close is local?

Paul Evans kindly asked me to write a post for the Local Democracy blog. I came up with one called How Close is Local? I live in a house on a street, in a village, within a parish, that is…

Bookmarks for February 2nd through February 7th

These are my links for February 2nd through February 7th:

  • Social Innovation Lab Kent - "SILK is a way of working that puts people and their everyday experiences at the centre of policymaking and service design."
  • digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - "This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively."
  • Passenger Focus - Putting Rail Passengers First - "We are an independent public body set up by the Government to protect the interests of Britain's rail passengers."
  • Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise - "Clay Shirky, leading commentator on internet technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody, last night backed away from his earlier enthusiasm for the online wisdom of crowds in democratic decision-making. He suggested that Government use of social media should focus more on “small groups of smart people arguing with each other”, than national-scale engagement online."
  • City of Lincoln Council - Planning & Building Control - Plan - Lincoln Council provide Google Map of planning applications on there site - data courtesy of planningalerts.com - good work all round!

Ideas for blog posts

Paul Bradshaw has twelve (count ’em!). I wrote about some here. Or there is always my (mostly up-to-date) blogging guide: Better Blogging Publish at Scribd or explore others: Technology How-To Guides & DIY ebook blogging

Web 2.0 North of the Border

Duncan Stephan and Alex Stobart are building up an online resource for public bodies in Scotland to help them make the most of social web technology, with a blog called ScotWeb2. Building on the momentum of the successful barcamp-style event…

Backup! Backup!

Computing in the cloud is great: you get to keep all your data somewhere online, which means that you – and anyone you authorise – can get at it wherever you are. But there can be problems. One is of…

Helen Milner on open processes

I was delighted when UK online centres decided to make their bid for the Digital Mentor fund from CLG, inspired by the community initiative to take a policy initiative by the scruff of the neck over at DigitalMentor.org. Now the…

Snow business

The snow has made it a tricky week this week, with transport problems and the local school being closed. What’s more, just outside Cambridge, the snow is still falling on DavePress Towers. It’s quite pretty, mind. It’s hasn’t all been…

Weathering the storm with a blog

Looks you don’t have to have an environmentally friendly e-magazine to advise residents and local businesses about how to get through the recession. Carl Haggerty points to Devon’s Weathering the Storm site. Like Lincoln, they have got something up that’s…

Bookmarks for January 28th through February 1st

These are my links for January 28th through February 1st:

Localgovcamp

One of the real successes of Saturday’s government barcamp was the large turnout of local government folk, which was great to see. This has set me thinking that there must be sufficient numbers of peope who would be interested in…

Now, this is nice

Steph has posted about the work he has been doing getting the Power of Information Taskforce report online for interested folk to comment on it before it gets published. It’s a lovely piece of work: It is in fact a…

Barcamping today

This morning, over 130 people interested in the way government uses the web will be descending on London to, well, have a bit of a natter. There has already been plenty of chat on the event social network, and hopefully…

This is how it can be done

After all my moaning of recent times, a good news story. Lincoln City Council have released a site called Community Voice which links to all their ongoing consultations, with an RSS feed to keep up to date with new ones…

STOP BLOCKING

Steph has released some details of his short survey of the blocking of useful websites within the public sector. The following figures show the percentages of organisations which allow access to each type of site: Google 100% LinkedIn 100% NetMums…

Fantastic social reporting result

Just have to dash out a quick blog post on this as it’s just so brilliant! One of the presenters at today’s IDeA Performance event, Andrew Hudson-Smith of UCL (see Ingrid’s notes here and a video here) mentioned the use…

More IDeA social reporting

…is happening over at IDeA Performance. This is a great initiative by IDeA, trying to open up the training and workshops they provide to anyone with an internet connection. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in local government…

Social Media Exchange materials now online

As I mentioned in my previous post, in a few hours (must…sleep…) I’ll be running a couple of sessions at the Social Media Exchange. I’ve now finished my slides, and have put them up on slideshare. Rather than make your…