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Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd: Obama’s Secret Weapon: Geeks. Lots of Them | Linux Journal – "The man has means for e-governance already in place. And geeks are the ones who put it there. And will continue to…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 29th: UK Central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with rss feeds – Er… just what it says. Useful list, hat tip to Tom Steinberg on the MySociety list Municipalist: Q &…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 27th: MJ Ray – slef on WsM Forum – Parish councillor's blog Supplying Decent Services – Hazel Blears announces a review of what happens when local gov doesn't deliver the goods, to be chaired…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 26th: 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes – Another useful roundup of wordpress themes
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 21st: Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines – Great guide on screencasting 10 Downing Street Website on More4 News – Spot from More4 News going through some of the criticisms of the Number…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 20th: URL Rewriting for Beginners – Apache – Added Bytes – Useful guide. Thanks to Pete Ashton for the tip. Citizenscape – The CitizenScape eParticipation Programme Trial Project will integrate and test state-of-the-art Web…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 18th: SocialGO – Social Network Maker – A ning-a-like. Interesting. Thanks to Laura for the tip. Council uses social media to interact with residents – Article on what Barnet council is up to with…
Stuff I have bookmarked for August 15th through August 16th: Council defends job ‘Down Under’ – Interesting flexible working initiative at Fenland Council in Cambridgeshire NDS – News Distribution Service – RSS feeds for every gov't department – well done…
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:…