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It’s been a great start to the day at UKYouthOnline. You can follow the twitter back channel (no snarkiness spotted yet, must be a record) at and I’m uploading a few photos at Do join in by leaving…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 26th: Ning Blog » Toward Youth 2.0 in the UK – Saturday's event and associated network is highlighted on the official Ning blog. Coolio.
I have started a wiki to collect together resources and stories of where local government has used the web in interesting ways. You can find it at – please visit and add any bits you can think of. If…
This post is part of my ’10 Social Media Steps’ series. Find them all here. Introduction The first step in the social media journey is to go and find what other people you might know are up to. As well…
I’m going to be running a session at the NCVO Information Conference on 24th November. I’m facilitating one of the practical workshops, playing the social media game to help delegates put some of what they have learned on the day…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 22nd: Circus clowns silenced by the licensing laws » Communities » 24dash.com – Another step towards ridding the world of the clown menace
The team behind the UK Parliament‘s website – which also includes accounts on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others – have launched a WordPress blog. The Purpose of the blog seems to be focusing on the development of the Parliament website,…
Neil Williams has a nice post about the way he has built up his network using Twitter: Twitter, the micro-blogging site to rule them all, has introduced me to more relevant contacts more quickly than any other web 2.0 tool.…
I have made another quick addition to Public Sector Bloggers, with the availability of an OPML file to download. Rather than subscribe to the combined feed, you can instead import each individual feed into your RSS aggregator in one go.…
Next weekend is a busy one for webheads in London. Not only is it UKYouthOnline (which I am attending) but also Barcamp London 5 is happening. Sadly, that’s all booked up. But never fear! Harry Metcalfe is organising a spillover…
I’ve been putting a bit of work in updating the Public Sector Bloggers site, which aggregates a load of feeds from folk in the public sector who blog (duh…) in one place. The website gives a quick overview on the…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 19th: TightURL Project Page – Build your own tinyurl type URL shortening service
One of the great arguments in favour of employing social web tools is the fact that they are pretty quick, and usually cheap, to put together. However, that’s not taking into account the other costs, one of which is managing…
I’m working my way through my dead tree reading list, and right now I’m burning through Seth Godin‘s Meatball Sundae. It’s terrific stuff. Here’s one nugget from early on in the book -a list of ‘the foundations of new marketing’.…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 17th: The perfect WordPress host – Simon Dickson has had a barnstorming idea
My idea for the Building Democracy competition is now up and live on the site, awaiting your comments! Please visit the entry and leave your thoughts, even if it is just to say what an amazing vision it is, and…
Bookings are flying in for ReadWriteGov, the social media shindig I am organising along with Fran Paterson, which will be held at Peterborough City Council on 29th October. Responding to a bit of feedback I have received, I have added…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 16th: Cool HTML to BBCode Converter v. 1.2 – Want to copy and paste a blog post into a forum without having to manually change your tags to bbcode? This'll do it for you.
10 Social Media Steps is a guide to how people with very little experience get get engaged with social web tools. Taking in a whole range of different services, from social networks to photos sharing to social bookmarking and blogging,…
Teacamps are the bi-weekly get togethers of people interested in government and the web, which emerged from January’s Barcamp. I don’t get along nearly as often as I would like – something that will hopefully change now I have a…