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Nice post from Steve Rubel, comparing the approach taken by two hugely innovative companies to engaging with their customers: Google isn’t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they’re light years ahead of Apple – a…
LGSearch is something of an anomaly in my ‘portfolio’ of stuff I’ve made in that is actually works and is useful. I built it a couple of years ago while working as Risk Management Officer at a County Council. Essentially,…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 8th: Socialreporter | Organise social reporters? Up to a point. – Great post and discussion on David Wilcox's blog
Am very late in writing about this, but am only just getting round to reading the third report produced by the Digital Dialogues project. This bit, from the Guidance and Recommendations section, is very nicely put: From our research we…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 7th: Beckenham Residents – Local action in Beckenham via a Ning social network site. Hat tip @lesteph
I’ve always been a little uncertain of Ning, the service that allows you to create your own social networks. I’m not sure why: possibly a comination of them looking rather samey (certainly in the early days), and being – to…
Shane has posted at CivicSurf the two parts of the online video version of the CivicSurf video, which I have included below, too. Why not email and ask for some actual DVDs you could show to your local councillors? [HTML1]…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 4th: paulcanning: How not to do video about recycling – Great notes from Paul on how local gov can make their video go viral (ie get people to actually watch it)
A short while ago, I wrote a little piece about a possible idea to enter into the Building Democracy competition, which was to create a social ‘directory’ of online community groups. I put directory in inverted comments because that isn’t…
The search box on the FireFox toolbar is a pretty useful thing, giving you quick access to various search engines and other sites, like Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia. It’s based on a Mozilla project called Mycroft (that being the name…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 3rd: Mantis Bug Tracker – Bug tracker built in PHP Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face – Hosted subversion, via @lesteph Website Improvements and New Features – Your Archives…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd: Obama’s Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them | Linux Journal – "The man has means for e-governance already in place. And geeks are the ones who put it there. And will continue to…
There are plenty of events you can go to to find out about the social web, and how it can help public sector organisations, but they can be rather expensive, and pretty formal too. Another issue is that they are…
Great post by Neil Williams on how civil servants can approach blogging in a way that means they will get readers but won’t lose their jobs: Starting up your own personal blog is dead easy. Unless you’re a civil servant…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 29th: UK Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds – Er… just what it says. Useful list, hat tip to Tom Steinberg on the MySociety list Municipalist: Q &…
I just had a request from someone asking what the best community sites are for a certain – fairly specific – group of people. A little digging, partly Google, partly ‘I know I’ve seen something like this somewhere…’, soon produced…
Palimpsest is a site I am really rather proud of. It was my first attempt at building a really social web community, launching in April 2003, and is still going strong. It’s a forum, pure and simple, where people talk…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 27th: MJ Ray – slef on WsM Forum – Parish councillor's blog Supplying Decent Services – Hazel Blears announces a review of what happens when local gov doesn't deliver the goods, to be chaired…
The fine folk at Common Craft keep producing the goods. If you need a quick intro to Google Reader, here’s a great one: [HTML1]
I missed a couple of bits out of my recent post on stuff I am/will be using to work once I am self employed (not long to go now, folks!). Here’s a couple more: Communications Being at home alone more…