Digital lit.

It strikes me that digital literacy is becoming more and more important, as more and more of the things we do in life are digitalised. It helps to understand how computers work if you want to buy some music these…

Why start a blog?

There are a number of reasons why you might want to start blogging: You have ideas you want to share You have a story to tell You have knowledge you want to demonstrate You want to progress your career You…

Three excellent vintage Woz videos

Not much I can add to these. Well worth a watch. If you can’t see them, in the titles I have linked to the original YouTube pages. Steve Wozniak’s Pledge of Apple Allegiance – “One Notion Under Jobs” Steve Wozniak…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The knowledge sharing paradox The MacSparky Markdown Field Guide Hyperlocal Voices: Geoff Bowen, Sheffield Forum Google Trust Why Ruby? Building the standard Next Steps Taken for data.ac.uk… Open Source meets Open…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Celebrating Age UK’s Internet Champion – Jim, 92 The Big Idea Opportunities and challanges for citizen engagement… some thoughts social media customer services? let’s talk about it How to use content…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: A few take home pointers from GovCamp 2013 Beta testing the Service Standard Of the web, not on the web Asynchronous social learning is newer than you think Using Social Media…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all. Consulting with children on the internet Innovation: are we ready for it to be a part of our DNA? Does less equal more, at…

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The secret origins of Google’s Chrome OS Book available in print-on-demand format The Opportunities And Dangers In Our Existing Habits On Channels and Combinations #ukgc13 #commscamp13 #tuttle NESTA provides a framework…

School of digital

SchoolofDigital is bringing together something I’ve been wanting to do for a few years now – effective online training that brings together the advantages of e-learning with the benefits of face to face training. It’s a hard nut to crack,…