Barcamping today
This morning, over 130 people interested in the way government uses the web will be descending on London to, well, have a bit of a natter. There has already been plenty of chat on the event social network, and hopefully…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
The search for shared meaning
…was the title of the talk I was asked to give at the Central London Branch of the British Computer Society last Thursday. Here are my minimalist* slides: The search for shared meaning View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.…
IDeA Performance
This Friday (9th January 2009) the Improvement and Development Agency and LARCI are holding an event entitled Performance management plus: the next stage of performance management for operational improvement. Sounds like heavy stuff, but with a great mixture of speakers…
Barcamp on Ning
The upcoming Barcamp for UK government webby stuff now has a social network, thanks to Ning! In many ways, this is a copycat …err… following good practice attempt after the excellent network set up by Tim Davies for the UK…
Barcamp-Teacamp this Thursday (18/12/08)
Teacamps are the rather British regular get togethers for people interested in cool webby stuff in government. They take place every other Thursday at the House of Fraser cafe on Victoria Street. Turnout has been a little disappointing of late,…
Big screens for events
The Cisco08.com site is being displayed all around the Clarion Hotel here in Stockholm on big displays: This is a great way of letting people know that the content is there, and it has attracted quite a lot interest amongst…
The human intranet
Andy Gibson, one of the chaps behind School of Everything, Mind Apples and his own consultancy business Sociability, made a couple of cracking presentations last Monday at the NCVO Information Management event. Sadly I didn’t get to see either as…
BarcampUKGovWeb is back, back, baaaaack!
Tom Watson points us all to a new wiki for getting the next barcamp for UK (and elsewhere) government webbies going. Sign up and start thinking about you could present about! I have already put down that I’m interested in…
ColaLife Campaign Video
Some news from the ColaLife campaign… as part of the submission to Google for the 10^100 competition, a 30 second video has been created. And it’s lovely: [HTML1] Please visit the YouTube page and mark the video as a favourite,…
The first London Net Tuesday!
Amy Sample Ward has already arranged the first meeting of the London Net Tuesday group, which you can find out all about at Meetup.com. For the pathologically click-lazy, it’s on November 4th at the Charity Technology Trust. Here’s the official…