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lgSHOUT! is another little service I have put together for local government, following on from LGSearch, which went a little way to fixing the problem of getting relevant search results. lgSHOUT! tries to do something about communication. The idea behind…
Here’s an interesting development: AOL have announced the purchase of social network Bebo for $850 million in cash. Previous coverage didn’t even mention AOL as a potential buyer. From BusinessWire: With a total membership of more than 40 million worldwide,…
Where do government and other public sector folk get their news from? Info4Local eGov Monitor GCN Kable Individual government department websites Any others? I wonder if there is a possibility for putting together a one-stop-shop for news, aggregating the popular…
Interesting news item this morning on eGov monitor: A new £4 million programme to help local authorities tackle climate change was announced by Environment Minister Phil Woolas and Local Government Minister John Healey today. The programme will spread existing best…
The information authority is currently recruiting a Community and Stakeholder Manager. This is a great job, not least because it means you get to tell me what to do. Here’s some details: With senior-level communications and stakeholder-management experience in the…
Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister for web stuff, has been busy, first of all giving a speech on Government 2.0: Driving through the cultural change in all our communications that sees the internet, mobile and other new media as…
…but they do have to be sensible about it. The UK blogosphere is getting jolly excited about the case of the Civil Serf blog (no point linking to it, it’s gone now) which has disappeared following mainstream media interest in…
Knowledge management is something that really interests me, and it’s something that I think governmental organisations at all levels in the UK need to start seriously addressing. Of course, being a social media fanboy too means that I like to…
From his column in Sunday’s Observer: Flickr’s designers also displayed a shrewd grasp of the essence of Web 2.0 thinking – namely that the big rewards come from making it easy for other developers to hook into your stuff. So…
Steve Dale writes about the need for organisations to consider the cultural as well as the technological issues around collaboration and communication using the web” An excellent posting from Shawn over at Anecdote about fostering a collaboration culture. A good…
It was interesting to see the results of the little poll I have been running in my sidebar recently regarding how people read posts on this blog. Out of the 25 votes cast, only four people responded that they read…
I wondered last week about the ways we can use online tools to collaborate on projects – I had on my mind the etoolkit that David Wilcox (and now Beth Kanter, Emma Mulqueeny, Alex Stobart, Nancy White and Steve Dale…)…
David Wilcox and I had a meetup earlier this week, where we talked about the different ways that organisations need to be approached in terms of how they might make use of social media and web 2.0 stuff – or…
I really like the idea of using the web to bring people together and work on problems out in the open, rather like David Wilcox and Simon Berry did in their bid for the Innovation Exchange project. They used Drupal,…
Erm, no thanks.
Another slice of Common Craft genius. [youtube:] Thanks to Paul for the link – via Twitter, of course!
TwitterNotes lets you post yourself notes using Twitter, just by prefixing the note with a ‘+’. Dead easy, and great from a mobile phone. There is even a mechanism for making private notes, and tagging them using the hashtags convention.
This looks very exciting. Thanks to Nick for the tip off. Edit: More via TechCrunch: It is easy to dismiss this as completely unnecessary given the abundance of social networks already out there, as well as application development platforms like…
…not to write another blog post about blogging for a while. I do need another area of obsession though. Wikis? Social networks? Any other suggestions?
As part of some notes I have been putting together for getting started with blogging, I’ve written about some of the other services that it might be a good idea to register with, in addition to your blog: No blog…