Bookmarks

Stuff I have bookmarked for July 27th through August 20th:

• Linked data, swings and roundabouts « Policy and Performance – "We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps key to making this happen is to look to ourselves first and begin to share data and make it accessible within the sector, with partners and most importantly to the public."
• Help Give Them a Voice – Nice wordpress site from DoH and DCSF promoting social work careers.
• Search Find Learn – Great e-learning blog from @michellegallen
• Google Groups Integrates with Google’s Web Apps – "Google Groups is one of the services that would benefit a lot from an integration with Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and other Google apps. It makes sense to create a document and to collaborate with other group members or to create a calendar and share it with your group."
• FutureGov » Features Uncategorized » What social technologies mean for public services – "Increasingly, the state is being seen as a facilitator, cheerleader and champion, rather than commander-in-chief; government as a convenor of interests, just one (albeit important) player in a patchwork quilt of public service delivery."

Stuff I have bookmarked for July 11th through July 26th:

• Guide to Cross-Government Collaboration ~ Huddle – "Welcome to Huddle.net’s Guide to Collaboration for government and public sector. We tried to keep it simple, informative and agnostic."
• Open Atrium – "Part intranet, part do-it-yourself project with a kick of open source hotness"
• WordPress › KB Advanced RSS Widget « WordPress Plugins – A decent wordpress widget for displaying RSS feeds. Much better than the default one.
• LocalGovCamp changed my life « Carl’s Notepad – "Ok, so it didn’t change my life as such, but it has changed my perspective on knowledge sharing and encouraging others to participate – either way – if you get a chance to attend a similar event DO."
• Towards an Interactive Charter – "Towards an Interactive Charter is a project to encourage and support public and voluntary sector organisations in unlocking their interactive potential through the use of social media."

Stuff I have bookmarked for June 3rd through July 4th:

• I want to – Phil Bradley's awesome blog of web 2.0 tools and services.
• Online debate community for logical, passionate people – CreateDebate – CreateDebate is a social tool that democratizes the decision-making process through online debate.
• Downloads « Building a DIY website – Useful stuff for community websites
• Barack Obama won using ‘old school’ technology, says his campaign manager | Media | guardian.co.uk – "David Plouffe, mastermind of Obama's 'web 2.0 campaign', downplays role of Facebook and Twitter in US election victory"
• LocalGov.co.uk – Your authority on UK Local Government > Local Government News & Analysis > Council freezes Twitter account after insult gaffe – "How anyone could ever suggest that a public body could control a Twitter account is beyond me."

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Stuff I have bookmarked for May 17th through June 1st:

• They Want To Work For You Wiki – "Anyone can edit this directory of candidates standing for the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."
• mySociety » Blog Archive » What the government doesn’t understand about the Internet, and what to do about it – "What is different is the way in which the Internet changes social and economic practices – the vector of attack. In the 20th century, advancement of human welfare went hand in hand with the rise of companies that used economies of scale to deliver better goods and services for customers. Technology effectively made it possible and much easier to be a big, highly productive company, to gather expertise and capital together and to target markets for maximum yields."
• YouTube looking at standalone ‘SafeTube’ site for families | Media | guardian.co.uk – "YouTube is exploring the introduction of a family-friendly 'SafeTube' version of the site as part of its programme of improving safety and content standards"
• answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices – Some useful q&as on what young people do online
• What makes a good LPA web site? « Portal Director – "I’d be very interested to hear your views on what a good local authority planning web site contains and some examples of best practise. I’m happy for those of you at LPAs to blow your own trumpet and I’ll moderate out any intemperate responses."