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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.…
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
I’m looking forward to tomorrow, as a gang of folk from DIUS‘s engagement team (led ably by Steph) and I will be spending the day reporting from the All Together Now event in London. Hosted by Channel 4, DIUS and…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
From Moleitau on Flickr.
Neville writes about the latest service from Best Before – the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo – which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your…
Accessible Twitter takes Twitter and makes it more, er, accessible. Excellent work! Thanks to @littlelaura for the tip.
Mitch Sava of PolyWonk emailed me the other day with details of a really interesting event he is putting together with Simon Grice of Ideas.org, called OpenGov. Taking place in London on 22nd April 2009, OpenGov will be a practical…
My good friend Al Kitching writes a damn fine film review blog. He’s also doing something silly for charity: I’m being dropped into an “as yet undisclosed wilderness location” for five days of survival and adventure. The event will contain…
David has written about covering events again as part of his investigation of the role of the social reporter. He writes: So on the one hand it is more difficult to charge for the logistics, and on the other hand…
David’s blog post reminded me that I have been banging on to a lot of people about some vague idea which I’ve been calling ‘non-professionalism’. Basically, non-professionalism is the culture required to work effectively on the social web. If you…
I’m going to be facilitating an online conference with Steve, Ingrid and others, which will be all about encouraging councillors to make better use of social web technology. It will be happening on a Community of Practice, meaning that there…
I just won one of these on ebay: It works, too. Can’t wait to have it up and running. Anyone up for a game of Chuckie Egg?
Effective Social Media & Web 2.0 Strategies for Local Authorities is a new event from Public Sector Forums, happening at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester on 30 April 2009. I have the pleasure of chairing the event, as well as giving…
I’ve just found out that my sister is on Twitter. Do say hello to her – I’m sure that as a press officer for a big charity, she’d love to hear how they can be using Twitter and other services…