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Awesomeness off of the internet for September 16th to September 20th: Postscript two: Lessons from the great 2009 Birmingham City Council website disaster – Paul Canning keeps up the pace on the BCC website story. Crowd Fusion | Web Publishing…
Awesomeness off of the internet for September 13th to September 16th: The US Government Is Going Google – "It looks like The White House has copied a page from Google’s playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 9th through September 12th: Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: How do you create a culture that is not afraid to fail (or be more receptive to social media?) – Great post…
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 6th: How to Keep WordPress Secure – The official word on preventing your WP site getting hacked. The Ugliest Website in the World – “Craigslist is willing to do the basic,…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 20th through September 2nd: Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” Derry firm…
Stuff I have bookmarked for July 27th through August 20th: Linked data, swings and roundabouts « Policy and Performance – "We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps…
Stuff I have bookmarked for July 11th through July 26th: Guide to Cross-Government Collaboration ~ Huddle – "Welcome to Huddle.net’s Guide to Collaboration for government and public sector. We tried to keep it simple, informative and agnostic." Open Atrium –…
Stuff I have bookmarked for June 3rd through July 4th: I want to – Phil Bradley's awesome blog of web 2.0 tools and services. Online debate community for logical, passionate people – CreateDebate – CreateDebate is a social tool that…
Stuff I have bookmarked for May 17th through June 1st: They Want To Work For You Wiki – "Anyone can edit this directory of candidates standing for the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." mySociety » Blog Archive »…
A year or so ago, I wrote about my dead tree web 2.0 reading list, which was all about what books were being published about the interactive web. I’ve bought most of those on the list, plus a bunch of…
Stuff I have bookmarked for May 4th through May 16th: Baby steps in Social Media News Releases – "The Social Media News Release (SMNR) updates the old press notice and video news release for a social media age. Factual bullet…
I’m going to be speaking at and chairing an event run by Public Sector Forums this Thursday, which is going to be all about how local authorities could be using social web technology to reach out to citizens. I’m going…
Stuff I have bookmarked for April 19th through April 26th: Oh Yeah? Prove It. | Power Shift – Social Media Blog – Useful piece on measuring social media activity OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles : Tim’s…
Stuff I have bookmarked for April 4th through April 13th: Working with us – Collaborative Innovation – Programmes – NESTA – Amplified City is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 29th through April 1st: WordPress › Post and Comment Growth « WordPress Plugins – Interesting looking plugin for wordpress mu to track activity on a blog network A Ladder of Citizen Participation – Sherry…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 22nd through March 28th: jeecamp / FrontPage – Interesting looking event being run by Paul Bradshaw. ScholarPress – Set of plugins to make WordPress more useful in a learning environment. Sub Pages widget –…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 15th through March 22nd: Ben’s Experiments » James and the Giant Peach – The boy had to do an audio recording for his school project. I thought it was only fair to make it…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 8th through March 14th: James Harkin on why gregarious online communities are a myth – Potentially interesting piece that turns out to be bereft of any kind of substance. Shame. How is this thing…
Stuff I have bookmarked for March 4th through March 8th: Finding a political navigator – Neville's thoughtful view on the Director of Digital Engagement post. How to open source your stuff at Helpful Technology – Steph on sharing your code…
Stuff I have bookmarked for February 26th through March 3rd: Getting Started: gadgets.* API – Gadgets – Google Code – Via @lesteph – create Google Gadgets to go on things like iGoogle pages. The Times & CUNY (and others) go…