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Bookmarks for August 26th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 26th: 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes – Another useful roundup of wordpress themes
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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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How councils can get started with social media
A sunday morning tweet from Tom Watson set my mind racing this morning: Which is a very interesting question, not least for me as I have a considerable interest in loca government’s use of social media, as facilitator of the…
Levels of social web engagement
I have been reading Li and Bernhoff’s Groundswell just recently, and I came across an interesting division of levels of interaction with the social web. I’ll type it out here for your edification. Creators Publish a blog Publish your own…
Bookmarks for August 21st
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 21st: Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines – Great guide on screencasting 10 Downing Street Website on More4 News – Spot from More4 News going through some of the criticisms of the Number…
Working in the cloud
This rather mega post from Paul Stamatiou made me think about what I’m going to be using from September to manage myself and my business. Most of these I have been using for a while, or have just started to…
Bookmarks for August 20th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 20th: URL Rewriting for Beginners – Apache – Added Bytes – Useful guide. Thanks to Pete Ashton for the tip. Citizenscape – The CitizenScape eParticipation Programme Trial Project will integrate and test state-of-the-art Web…
Scripting Enabled presentation
Following up on the Scripting Enabled event, coming up in September, here’s a presentation setting out some of the background. Well worth clicking through! [HTML1] Thanks to Dom for the pointer.
Bookmarks for August 18th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 18th: SocialGO – Social Network Maker – A ning-a-like. Interesting. Thanks to Laura for the tip. Council uses social media to interact with residents – Article on what Barnet council is up to with…
Social networks, or beefed-up blogs?
I have been looking around recently at social networkings systems, focusing on freely available ones, such as Elgg (which powers the rather lovely UnLtdWorld, and which has its proper v1.0 release out soon) and PeopleAggregator. The other option I had…
Google gives an insight into search
One of the key things for any website is findability – in other words, it’s great having a site packed full of useful content, but it’s pointless if no one knows where it is. So, it’s about having good navigation…
My Top Twitter Tip
Twitter is great, it really is. Even with the downtime, the dropping of SMS updates in the UK and other places, and all the other little irritations with the service, it still manages to inspire a considerable loyalty among those…
Blog Action Day 2008
Blog Action Day is happening on October 15th this year, with a theme of ‘Poverty’. What’s Blog Action Day? Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about…
Bookmarks for August 15th through August 16th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 15th through August 16th: Council defends job ‘Down Under’ – Interesting flexible working initiative at Fenland Council in Cambridgeshire NDS – News Distribution Service – RSS feeds for every gov't department – well done…
Bookmarks for August 14th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 14th: Pep-Net – Pan European e-Participation Network » Blog Archive » Uniting the Open Source efforts in eParticipation – Almost all eParticipation projects are combinations of social methods and some sort of web based…
Creating an email newsletter
Partly to be helpful, and partly to do a bit of profile-raising, I have been thinking of putting together a regular (weekly or fortnightly) email newsletter, full of social web news, views and other tidbits. It might go some way…
My UKYouthOnline session?
Tim is inviting people to put forward ideas for sessions at the upcoming UKYouthOnline conference on the event’s social network. I have put forward mine: a social web surgery: My idea for a session at the unconference is to run…
Yahoo! Launch Fire Eagle
Yahoo! have launched Fire Eagle, a ‘geo-location platform’. Covering the launch, TechCrunch says: Fire Eagle allows users to syndicate their positional data to any partner service after updating from a supported device or website. This means that after sending a…
DavePress on Facebook
As part of my social media onslaught to promote DavePress as my new business from September, I have created a page on Facebook. Please sign up as a fan and keep me company – and make me look popular!
Building democracy with a bug tracker
Tim Davies is a busy boy right now. As well as organising the upcoming UKYouthOnline unconference, he is also flinging his ideas into Building Democracy, the new competition to fund exciting ideas to revitalise people’ interest in participating in UK…
Bookmarks for August 13th
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 13th Taking the shine off: Why blog publishing failed in the UK – Interesting article on TechCrunch UK about the failure of independant blog networks to succeed in the UK