My idea for the Building Democracy competition is now up and live on the site, awaiting your comments! Please visit the entry and leave your thoughts, even if it is just to say what an amazing vision it is, and what an awfully clever chap I am.
Ta!
ReadWriteGov Update
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 an option to pay the (miniscule) cost of the tickets by requesting an invoice, which should make it easier for some folk to come along. So now nobody has an excuse!
Bookmarks for September 16th
Stuff I have bookmarked for September 16th:
- Cool HTML to BBCode Converter v. 1.2 – Want to copy and paste a blog post into a forum without having to manually change your tags to bbcode? This'll do it for you.
10 Social Media Steps
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, I’ll be introducing each tool in an easy-to-understand way, using as many different types of media as possible. It’ll be fun!
The steps will be as follows:
- Join a social network
- Subscribe to some RSS feeds
- Bookmark stuff socially
- Share some photos
- Use online video
- Start blogging
- Stream your thoughts
- Aggregate your life
- Collaborate on the web
- Meet some people
If you want to follow the 10 steps, or (even better) pass them on to people who might get the most benefit, then just point your browser towards here, which will present all the posts.
So, I think that is probably that for this introductory post. You could always amuse yourself watching this video from Common Craft explaining what social media is all about:
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Teacamping this Thursday
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 bit more control over my time – but I will be heading down to the House of Fraser cafe on Victoria Street this Thursday. Hope to see plenty of folk there!