An online notebook
I am looking forward to the 2gether festival this Wednesday and Thursday, lots of cool people coming, and lots of exciting sessions to attend. You can find out more at the event’s blog, or by looking around the associated social network, built on Crowdvine. I was flattered to be asked to run a session on … Keep reading
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 news is that Simon Dickson‘s going to be there, and running a session on non-blogging … Keep reading
Interesting article on TechCrunch about the Personal Democracy Forum taking place in New York next week: It’s also time for more industry leaders to push politicians to take a more forward-thinking approach to how government distributes public information. We hear a lot these days about how the internet is affecting the election, which PdF will … Keep reading
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 all well and good for public sector organisations to put on events to disseminate information, … Keep reading
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 the ideas around ‘organisation lite’ – using social tools, whether on or offline, to help … Keep reading