Learning from Obama

One of the interesting topics to emerge from 2gether08, specifically the sessions on whether UK politics is ‘big enough’ for the web, and ‘egov to wegov‘, was where we stand on campaigning online, especially in comparison with the US. This…

WordCamp UK

WordCamps are fairly unorganised events for lovers of the best blogging platform, like, eva: WordPress. The first one in the UK is taking place in Birmingham next month, and it’s going to be great. Get a ticket here. Even better…

Turning events inside out

Shane McCracken was sufficiently interested in the social reporting that David Wilcox and I undertook at the DC10plus event early last month that he started to develop a business model around it, dubbing it ConferenceXtra. The concept is that it’s…

OrgLite – an open presentation

The Online Information conference is coming up again in December, and having attended it last year, I was determined to actually present something this time around. David Wilcox and I have been talking a great deal in recent times about…

Shine Unconference 2008

This weekend there is a really exciting event going on at the Bargehouse in London – it’s simply called Shine. For three days, The Bargehouse at the heart of London’s Southbank will host a mash-up gathering, an ‘Un’Conference that will…

Dimdim

Dimdim looks very interesting. It’s a way of hosting your own online conferences or (ugh) webinars. You can do this yourself by downloading the open source package, or by using the hosted option which is, I think, free. No need…

Social reporting at SICamp

David Wilcox has taken his new Nokia to the Social Innovation Camp this weekend and is putting up some great video – social reporting in action! Incidentally, David tweeted earlier asking how Qik video can be embedded into a WordPress.com…

WetPaint wikis in plain english

WetPaint is a hosted wiki service that I haven’t really used before – I tend to stick with WikiSpaces, though have used pbwiki a fair bit recently for the barcampukgovweb. By the looks of this great video from the Common…