EtherPad – cool collaboration tool!

EtherPad is a great tool for working with others on a document at the same time. As the website states: Other “real-time” editors like Google Docs work by broadcasting an updated copy of the document to everyone every 15 seconds.…

Siôn Simon at All Together Now

The DIUS team here at All Together Now grabbed Further Education Minsiter Siôn Simon for a chat about how government can support the use of tech in education. Find more videos like this on All Together Now

Don’t link to us!

Public Sector Forums have an entertaining if slightly worrying list of government and other public sector sites whose terms and conditions try and restrict who can link to them.

People like video

In an article on the BBC Technology News page, I read about how the British web-going public are really getting into online video: British demand for online video sites has shot up over the past year, according to a new…

Social reporting kitbag

Last week I covered what online services are good for covering events online – what is rapidly becoming known as ‘social reporting’, thanks to David Wilcox’s evangelism. It might also be useful to write a few notes about the physical…

Pukka: an answer to my prayers

I’m making quite a lot of use of the social bookmarking service Delicious at the moment. Luckily, it is mostly using my own account, but on one or two projects I am using specific accounts. This can be a pain…

A new collaborative community

Helen has launched a new community blogging project over at digtialengagement.org which aims to be: a collaborative space for all those interested in digital engagement to share ideas and agree priorities for action around digital engagement This is of a…

Timetric

Timetric is a Cambridge based startup that, in their own words, is here to help you make sense of data. If you think about it, most of the numbers we come across every day are things like temperatures, prices, rates,…