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Stuff I have bookmarked for August 14th: Pep-Net – Pan European e-Participation Network » Blog Archive » Uniting the Open Source efforts in eParticipation – Almost all eParticipation projects are combinations of social methods and some sort of web based…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 13th Taking the shine off: Why blog publishing failed in the UK – Interesting article on TechCrunch UK about the failure of independant blog networks to succeed in the UK
I have been playing with FriendFeed today. It’s an interesting service that I first wrote about back in February, but haven’t paid a massive amount of attention to since. For those not in the know, FriendFeed is a service that…
Involve – The Participation Organisation | Deliberative Public Engagement – Nine Principles “Deliberative public engagement is a distinctive approach to involving people in decision-making.” (tags: government web2.0 involve participation)
Customize Your WordPress Admin Interface : Codswallop Alter the options that appear on WP-admin for different roles…simplify users’ experience. Brilliant stuff. (tags: wordpress plugin roles administration customise)
Reader Question: Is WordPress Safe To Use? | Performancing.com Article on security in WordPress (tags: wordpress security)
chrisgarrett’s profile » QIK Chris Garrett’s qik page with lots of wordcampuk goodness (tags: wordcamp wordpress chris+garrett qik videoconferencing wordcampuk) Economy Size Geek » Postie WP plugin to make posting by email easier (tags: wordpress plugin blog email postie wordcampuk)
PHP « Programming « Portfolio | lesterchan.net WordPress backup plugin, recommended at wordcampuk (tags: wordcampuk wordpress plugin backup) WordPress for iPhone Mmmmmmmmm (tags: apple blog wordpress iphone workcampuk) Sitewide tags pages for WordPress MU This is the initial release of…
power to the people: exploring the Empowerment White Paper LGA conference in September. Would love to go but it costs £355… (tags: communitiesincontrol web24gov slashgov lgedem localgovuk)
The Local Government Association has responded to the white paper Communities in Control on behalf of local authorities across the country. They are clearly anxious about finances: Councils will work with the Government to ensure that any additional responsibilities that…
Digital Mentors « watfordgap’s travels Paul Webster on how he perceives Digital Mentors (tags: digitalmentor web24gov communitiesincontrol watfordgap paul+webster) Andrew Keen On iPhone 3g “This new iPhone is a significant milestone in Steve Jobs’ audacious strategy of owning the digital…
Steps on the democratic journey “In truth, given the chance, most people can make rational choices, take tough decisions, balance competing demands and behave decently. Your view of community empowerment boils down to whether you trust people or not.” (tags:…
Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction …. “One of the personal learning threads that I’m following is working wikily – and relating this to…
Hazel Blears Blog « Cased Alice Casey of Involve on Hazel Blears’ 7 day blog (tags: alice_casey involve hazel+blears web24gov communitiesincontrol)
We Are Media » home “Join NTEN and nonprofit technology community and help us build a toolkit and instructional guides about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change…
Political lessons online « Policy and Performance “It’s also interesting to me to watch British political parties try to learn lessons from the American experience. There’s certainly a lot about our process that’s difficult, complicated and expensive. But, of course,…
Public lives: Does the internet know too much about us? – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent Poor Dom! (tags: privacy community web2.0 independent socialmedia reference internet online)
BBC NEWS | UK | Councils launch charm offensive Council chiefs are reminding voters of the work they do, using images including a drunk girl vomiting in the street and a dog fouling a park. (tags: councils localgovuk news communications…
eGov monitor – A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promoting Better Governance “The massive use of Web technology to develop and deploy eGovernment services already made the Web a crucial tool for governments.” (tags: article government web web24gov) Innovation Exchange “The…
The demise of ICELE | Delib Blog Gez Smith of Delib on The ICELE debacle (tags: icele edemocracy delib slashgov lgedem)