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An online notebook
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…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 26th: 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes – Another useful roundup of wordpress themes
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…