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Just recently, I have stopped using the WordPress inbuilt editor, which runs in the web browser, and have started using MarsEdit – a piece of desktop software I have previously been rather unkind about – to write my blog posts.…
Stuff I have bookmarked for December 7th through December 15th: World Economic Forum launches social media initiative | Media | guardian.co.uk – The World Economic Forum has launched a number of new several social media tools and is inviting web…
Whilst beavering away this week in Stockholm on Cisco08, I had a chance to play with a few different video hosting services, namely YouTube, Vimeo and Blip. Here’s what I found: YouTube YouTube was the default choice for me going…
More great stuff from David Wilcox musing on the experience of social reporting in Portugal. Whilst there, he was lucky enough to come across Etienne Wenger, a highly regarded thinker in the field of knowledge management and learning, who I…
I have just got my new Vista PC up and running. When I announced that I was going to buy such a thing in my Facebook status, it caused something of a reaction: Since getting it set up, I have…
If you are a Gmail user, you’ll be used to the many benefits that this webmail service provides, like massive storage, great search, powerful filtering and labelling of email, inbuilt instant messaging and voice calls over IP, and the ability…
David Wilcox, the godfather of the social reporting concept, has written up his reflections from a couple of days spent at an event in Portugal: What was unusual, in my experience, was that we had the benefit of a three…
This is why I moved to Cambridge – stuff like CloudCamb happening on your doorstep: All are invited to attend the first Amazon Web Services user group in Cambridge, on Wednesday 17th December. Learn more about getting started from the…
Big day for a WordPress fanboy like me – the latest version of the open source publishing platform has been released, with a much updated administration area amongst other innovations. Here is a video explaining some of the changes: I’d…
I’ve already posted this to the Cisco08 blog, but thought maybe some folk here would be interested in Charles Leadbeater’s talk at Cisco’s Public Sector Summit in Stockholm today: I just used a Flip Ultra to record, and so the…
After the sheer audio/visual genius of the previous two efforts in my video diary chronicling my trip to Sweden, I thought I would do another one. As a bonus, there is another Swedish Confectionary Review at the end. I decided…
The Cisco08.com site is being displayed all around the Clarion Hotel here in Stockholm on big displays: This is a great way of letting people know that the content is there, and it has attracted quite a lot interest amongst…
I am having fun here in Stockholm providing social web backup to the Public Sector Summit – an event arranged by Cisco to discuss how technology and government can help each other. We have quite a bit of activity going…
I have been rather enjoying myself on my trip to Sweden today, even after a very short night’s sleep in the world’s smallest hotel room. I kind of even enjoyed waiting for a bus at 4.25am under Heathrow’s terminal 4:…
I’m on my way to Stockholm, where I will be doing some social reporting and blog coaching at Cisco’s Public Sector Summit. I’m flying from Heathrow tomorrow (Monday) morning, at 7.25am and to save myself a bit of hassle I…
Another Saturday evening post about how the internet can have a positive effect on the way democracy and government operates. This one is straight from the US. An Open Transition is a site set up by a coalition of folk…
Quite a few folk have been lucky enough to see Us Now, a film made by Banyak Films in association with the RSA. Ivo Gormley directs. Here is how the film is described on its website: Us Now is a…
Stuff I have bookmarked for November 26th through December 5th: Save the Planet and Win – Social network for carbon reduction European Citizens’ Consultations – The European Citizens’ Consultations are the first ever pan-European debate involving citizens from all 27…
Here are the slides from my talk at Public Sector Forums in Birmingham yesterday. Hopefully they make some kind of sense… Engagement through social networking View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: psf) It was an interesting day and…
Amazon have been selling downloadable MP3s in the States for a while now, and finally you can get them in the UK. For those currently getting their legal digital music from the likes of iTunes, you should find the prices…