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An online notebook
Alastair Smith at Newcastle City Council today brought my attention to the fact that the ICELE eDemocracy guides were no longer available. Effectively, the link to the page where they were distributed via the Lulu website no longer works. Luckily…
Great interview by David Wilcox with Clay Shirky – check it out here if the embed doesn’t work for you.
I’m going to be talking to a bunch of public sector folk on Thursday as part of a Public Sector Forums event entitled Public Sector Websites – Essential Issues for Managers, Developers and Others. It should be a good day…
There has been quite a bit of twitterfuss over the last week about Mr Tweet, a hideously named service which analyses your current network and then suggests new people that you ought to be following, amongst other snippets of information.…
I’ve given DavePress yet another facelift. This one is a lot lighter and hopefully more friendly too. Personally, I especially like the ‘adverts’ in the top right corner, pimping my social media wares, such as my newsletter, ReadWriteGov and LGSearch.…
Tom Watson is making a list of people who aren’t yet on Twitter, but who ought to be for all our benefit. Stephen Fry (if it be he) has become an instant success using micro-blogging platfrom, Twitter. Life would be…
Helen Nicol writes an interesting post about how to get wikis taken up within organisations. Using Wikipedia as an example, she writes, is a bad idea, because it sets unrealistic expectations of the amount of content likely to be generated,…
Great comment left by Maureen Charles of Cambridgeshire County Council on the ReadWriteGov blog, acting as a real reminder of why I started arranging these events and the value they can have: I was really impressed by the event in…
I’ve just dug out an old 15″ flat screen monitor from a box and plugged it into my MacBook: The way I have it set up is to have email and twitter on the flatscreen, while having the actual work…
It’s good to see plenty of new content being added to the Voicebox blog – the home of the UK online centres and Citizens Online bid for the CLG digital mentor fund. For example, Mike Amos-Simpson on ‘What is Open…