An online notebook
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An online notebook
Bookings are flying in for ReadWriteGov, the social media shindig I am organising along with Fran Paterson, which will be held at Peterborough City Council on 29th October. Responding to a bit of feedback I have received, I have added…
10 Social Media Steps is a guide to how people with very little experience get get engaged with social web tools. Taking in a whole range of different services, from social networks to photos sharing to social bookmarking and blogging,…
Teacamps are the bi-weekly get togethers of people interested in government and the web, which emerged from January’s Barcamp. I don’t get along nearly as often as I would like – something that will hopefully change now I have a…
Next Saturday (September 20th) is Software Freedom Day: Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using…
Another local online community, using Ning. Spotted by Steve Dale.
Recently it was announced over at WordPress.com that a new feature had arrived – the ability to have ‘sticky’ posts on your blog homepage. Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or…
One of the features of a blog is that the posts appear in reverse-chronological order – that is to say, with the latest content first. But there are times when that might not always be appropriate. Let me give you…
Nice post from Steve Rubel, comparing the approach taken by two hugely innovative companies to engaging with their customers: Google isn’t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they’re light years ahead of Apple – a…
LGSearch is something of an anomaly in my ‘portfolio’ of stuff I’ve made in that is actually works and is useful. I built it a couple of years ago while working as Risk Management Officer at a County Council. Essentially,…
Am very late in writing about this, but am only just getting round to reading the third report produced by the Digital Dialogues project. This bit, from the Guidance and Recommendations section, is very nicely put: From our research we…