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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…
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…
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…
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…
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! 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…
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!
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…
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
Since delicious upgraded itself, the automatic posting of stuff I have bookmarked has stragely stopped on DavePress. Not at all sure why. Anyway, to improve things, I have installed the Postalicious plugin for WordPress, which will handle all this for…
I am planning a series of posts on this blog that will go right back to basics on a number of social web topics, partially just to be helpful but also to help develop the documentation for some workshops I…
Knol is a reasonably new service from Google, which has been described as their attempt to kill, or at elast steal some traffic from, Wikipedia. It’s basically a way for people to publish information about what they know in the…
Scripting Enabled looks like a really worthwhile couple of days out, if you can make it: Scripting Enabled is a two day conference and workshop aimed at making the web a more accessible place. We are planning to achieve this…
I have been playing with FriendFeed today. It’s an interesting service that I first wrote about back in February, but haven’t paid a massive amount of attention to since. For those not in the know, FriendFeed is a service that…
Since announcing that I am venturing into the world of self-employment, quite a few people have asked me the perfectly reasonable question of what it is that I am actually going to do. After much umming and ahing, I think…
Tim Davies has confirmed when and where the UKYouthOnline unconference will be taking place: 27th September at the HQ of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, on Victoria Street in London. The event promises to be a fabuolous opportunity…
A big welcome to the blogosphere to Neil Williams, all round good government web egg, who has started a blog called Mission Creep. He says in his opening post: It genuinely feels like exciting, important things are starting to happen…
Simon Berry’s ColaLife campaign is a truly wonderful thing, a real example of using the groundswell to develop an idea into a campaign and then, hopefully, into action. I was always at a bit of a loss, wanting to help…
Chris Brogan‘s blog is full of great stuff on social media. He has just published a list of 12 ways you can sell social media to your boss. Here’s the first six as a taster: Social media tools like blogging,…
There have been a number of posts popping up around the use of the social web within government, both as a reaction to discussions of the civil service guidelines for online participation and to the need to provide the tools…