Category Bookmarks

These are my links for February 2nd through February 7th:

• Social Innovation Lab Kent - "SILK is a way of working that puts people and their everyday experiences at the centre of policymaking and service design."
• digitalresearchtools / FrontPage - "This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively."
• Passenger Focus - Putting Rail Passengers First - "We are an independent public body set up by the Government to protect the interests of Britain's rail passengers."
• Clay Shirky: online crowds aren’t always wise - "Clay Shirky, leading commentator on internet technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody, last night backed away from his earlier enthusiasm for the online wisdom of crowds in democratic decision-making. He suggested that Government use of social media should focus more on “small groups of smart people arguing with each other”, than national-scale engagement online."
• City of Lincoln Council - Planning & Building Control - Plan - Lincoln Council provide Google Map of planning applications on there site - data courtesy of planningalerts.com - good work all round!

These are my links for January 28th through February 1st:

• UK GovCamp 09: a sense of progress - Fabulous roundup of Saturday's event from that man Simon Dickson
• FeedDemon to Sync with Google Reader? - This is potentially fabulous news. Google Reader is so much better than Newsgator's online offering...
• Advice to a new Tuttle-meister « The Tuttle Club - How to run your own Tuttle-like club
• About my Final IT Project « Fiona’s Final IT Project - "I am currently completing a final project module for an MSc in Business Information Systems Management at Middlesex University in order to further develop a very keen interest in Information Systems. I have created this blog in order to journal my progress and research findings from first-cut proposal to final draft. I hope you can join me on my journey."
• The Social Media Exchange - The WordPress based social reporting site I put together for this great event.

These are my links for January 14th through January 21st:

• apophenia: Taken Out of Context -- my PhD dissertation - Danah Boyd's PhD dissertation. Well worth a download.
• Government 2.0 Club - "Government 2.0 Club is a national organization that brings together leading thinkers from government, academia and industry to share ideas and solutions for leveraging social media tools and Web 2.0 technologies to create a more collaborate, efficient and effective government — Government 2.0."
• Anecdote: Profiting from Collaboration - "Google and P&G are both known for their innovation capabilities and strict internal policy. Driven by market forces, they made an exception. They swapped about two-dozen staffers who spent weeks dipping into each other's staff training programs and sitting in on meetings where business plans get hammered out. This is terrific example of purposeful collaboration delivering results."
• DELL COMMUNITY - Great example of taking a community approach to customer service.
• McLuhan Program - Research - Current Academic Research - "Because language is intimately integrated within the human mind, any technology that processes language in one way or another may have strong effects in the way the mind processes that content. Though they may have deciding common points such as plot, period and characters, a film adaptation is processed very differently by the mind of the viewer, than by that of the reader. "

Stuff I have bookmarked for January 11th through January 14th: Social reporting: some more tips and thoughts – "You need to remember there are several different audiences for any event and this should guide you as to the way you…

Stuff I have bookmarked for January 7th through January 10th: iGov – The Atlantic (January/February 2009) – How geeks are opening up government on the Web 21st Century Learning: The Art of Building Virtual Communities – "The burning question for…

Stuff I have bookmarked for January 4th through January 5th: Back in the office, back on PM « Policy and Performance – "We won’t be gearing up with a big project on PM like we did before, but we will…

Stuff I have bookmarked for January 1st through January 3rd: Thriving too: Leadership in a Paradigm of Respect – "we now have the means to group and voice in potential numbers never before dreamed of, how do we ensure that…

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 30th through December 31st: 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community – Chris Brogan shares some blogging magic TDO Mini Forms WordPress Plugin (v0.12.5) [thedeadone.net] – "This plugin allows you to add a form…

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 28th through December 30th: Oxite – Lab – MIX Online – Microsoft's open source blog platform / CMS? Front Seat – Software for Civic Life – "Front Seat is a civic software company and…

Stuff I have bookmarked for December 21st through December 28th: MoMB Labs | Twitter 100 – 100 of the best Twitter services How to make a Delicious “plugin” for Chrome – Simple bookmarklet to use delicious in Google's Chrome browser Pods…