Bookmarks

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 15th through October 16th:

• Cumbrian Newspapers Group boosts hyperlocal websites – "Independent regional publisher Cumbrian Newspapers Group is rolling out a series of interactive websites to allow community group to create their own pages alongside newspaper content."
• BAD08 Birmingham Social Media Surgery: provisional results – Nick Booth's summary of the wonderful social media surgery that took place in Birmingham on Blog Action Day 2008.
• Social Media Classroom – Very cool looking online social media learning & teaching tool. Thanks to @clarewhite for the tip
• Jubilee Debt Campaign Birmingham – One of the sites created by the Birmingham Bloggers Poverty Blog Action Day Social Media Surgery (or BBPBADSMS as I am sure it will become known)
• Start your new FAQlog! – Easy way to build hosted FAQ pages. Not entirely sure of the point but seems kind of an interesting idea…
• Iain Dale’s Diary: LibDem Peer Monsters LGA Man – How not to speak to the media…

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 12th through October 15th:

• Five ways to publish commentable documents online at Helpful Technology – More great stuff from Steph. Damn him.
• Tech Angels – "The Tech Angels are a student-run group at Wellington Girls’ College that aim to encourage and develop the use and integration of ICT into education and curriculum learning. " via @cased
• Socialreporter | The five year journey from Civic Hacking Fund to mySociety – David Wilcox on mySociety's 5th birthday, including a video of Tom Steinberg from 2003. Good stuff!
• Bloomberg.com: Exclusive – US government switching from Microsoft to Google Apps
• Government 2.0 – Best Practices / FrontPage – North american based wiki of cool govweb stuff
• Welsh schools to embrace climate change challenge – "Schools and their central role in the climate change challenge was the topic of discussion at a conference attended by Minister for Education Jane Hutt today."

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 9th through October 12th:

• NHS Constitution « Tub O’Lard’s Mutterings – Write up a recent consultation exercise by the NHS on their new constitution with Diabetes UK representatives.
• Diabetes.co.uk – Big looking online diabetes community
• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Nonprofits Using Ning – Great post from Beth Kanter on using the white label social networking service
• Rendering Knowledge – "…I updated my original three rules of knowledge management to seven principles which I share below"
• About this website — Rural Britain: a 2020 vision – "Hello. My name is Simon Berry and I am on a mission to pull together a collective vision of rural Britain in 2020."
• Story Telling, Web 2.0, and Non-profits | ImageSpace — Nonprofits and Web 2.0 – Nice little summary, via Laura Whitehead

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 7th through October 8th:

• Information Overload? My name is Laura and I confess, I’m an addict. – Great post on infobesityand how to cope with it from Laura Whitehead
• The top 20 plugins to transform WordPress in a CMS – FrancescoMugnai.com – Great list of useful wordpress plugins
• Puffbox.com » Archive » Scottish Sec Murphy to keep ‘blogging’ – Simon Dickson on the Scotland Office 'blog'
• Scotland Office – Secretary of State’s Blog – Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy starts a blog – but where's the RSS?? I can understand no comments (kind of) but no RSS? Sheesh.
• Getting your online community right from the start – iMediaConnection.com – Matt Rhodes of FreshNetworks on building successful online communities
• Talking hyperlocal, ultralocal workshop at mashup* – Will Perrin on local digital media

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 5th through October 7th:

• From server to surfer: anatomy of a website at Helpful Technology – Whilst I rather pompously like to refer to myself as a digital enabler, Steph Gray is rapidly becoming a damn good digital explainer
• Local authorities and social media – the current picture – Great bit of research blogging by Simon Wakeman
• Can RSA help bridge the social innovation divide? – David Wilcox muses on social innovation, collaboration and the effectiveness of online in august institutions
• Google Blog Search – Google's blog searching tool has a new look.
• Avoid social media mistakes: forget the technology and focus on the task – Neil Williams on getting the context for the tools right.