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…was the title of the talk I was asked to give at the Central London Branch of the British Computer Society last Thursday. Here are my minimalist* slides: The search for shared meaning View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.…
A quick repost of an important message on the MySociety blog: Uh oh. Ministers are about to conceal MPs’ expenses, even though the public hasjust paid £1m to get them all ready for publication, and even though the tax man…
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 11th through January 14th: Social reporting: some more tips and thoughts – "You need to remember there are several different audiences for any event and this should guide you as to the way you…
…is the title of a wonderful blog, which describes itself thus: This blog is written by 2 friends. One lives in Sajaia refugee camp in Gaza and the other lives in Sderot, a small town near Gaza on the Israeli…
I’m going to be talking to the good folk at the Central London branch of the British Computer Society this Thursday, on the topic of The Search for Shared Meaning: How Social Media Changes Everything: Blogs, online video, photo…
Open Source Schools is a site that launched sometime last summer, I think, but has now had quite a bit of a makeover. It’s chock full of great advice and resources on how schools can make use of open source…
Whenever I mention Twitter to anyone who wasn’t previously aware of it, the first question they ask is always ‘What is it for?’ Like many social web services, it can be difficult to explain the concept of Twitter. I find…
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 7th through January 10th: iGov – The Atlantic (January/February 2009) – How geeks are opening up government on the Web 21st Century Learning: The Art of Building Virtual Communities – "The burning question for…
Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli from Patients Know Best came to talk to the Cambridge Refresh group this evening. Patients Know Best is a startup which aims to help patients make use of their ‘Personal Health Record’ – a copy of which…
Image credit: tricky Tidying up a few bits on the IDeA Performance site, and seeing Steven Tuck’s comment on my previous post about it, I thought about how these techniques could be used in different situations within local government. After…
This Friday (9th January 2009) the Improvement and Development Agency and LARCI are holding an event entitled Performance management plus: the next stage of performance management for operational improvement. Sounds like heavy stuff, but with a great mixture of speakers…
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 4th through January 5th: Back in the office, back on PM « Policy and Performance – "We won’t be gearing up with a big project on PM like we did before, but we will…
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 1st through January 3rd: Thriving too: Leadership in a Paradigm of Respect – "we now have the means to group and voice in potential numbers never before dreamed of, how do we ensure that…
John Lanchester is quickly becoming my favourite contributor to the London Review of Books. So much of his writing is both accessible and informative. This issue he looks at computer games: From the economic point of view, this was the…
Stuff I have bookmarked for December 30th through December 31st: 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community – Chris Brogan shares some blogging magic TDO Mini Forms WordPress Plugin (v0.12.5) [thedeadone.net] – "This plugin allows you to add a form…
Here are the posts in decreasing order of popularity that seem to have caught people’s attention in the last 12 months: The UKGovWeb Twitterverse WordPress.com widget guide 10 Cool WordPress themes 8 tips for beginner bloggers Macbook Wireless Problem Effective…
There’s not long left of 2008 now. It’s been one of the most remarkable years of my life. I started it living in Mawsley, near Kettering, which I and my family hated. We then moved to Broughton, also near Kettering,…
Or maybe just stuff I’d like to get round to doing in 2009… Get more collaborative: I’d like to spend more time working with other people, and I’m hoping that in 2009 there will be plenty of opportunities for this…
Twitterhack is a new blog I have started. And it’s horrible. I hate ads on blogs, and this one has lots of them. It even has ads in the RSS, and the RSS isn’t even full text! Here’s why…
I hadn’t really had a chance to have a proper play with FriendConnect before today. It’s basically a Google service that lets you add social functionality to your website, based on the OpenSocial framework. This means that if you have…