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Nice wordpress theme
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Nick Bradbury argues the case for desktop based RSS readers like his very own FeedDemon. I think he’s right.
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Integrating online and face to face community involvement via co-design.
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Charlotte Carey on last night’s Birmingham Bloggers meet.
barcampukgovweb Search
While I was in the customised search mood, I thought it might be useful to have one for the upcoming barcampukgovweb. Click the logo below to jump to it.
Online collaboration does work
Despite now working in further education, I’m still involved in the predominantly local government based Communities of Practice social online collaboration platform, which is developed by the Improvement & Development Agency. For a quick run through of the whys, whats, wheres and hows, Steve Dale’s presentation from Online Information 2007 is as good a place to start as any.
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I currently facilitate a few communities on the platform, principally the Social Media and Online Collaboration one, where we discuss the latest and greatest online innovations and muse dreamily on how wonderful it would be for our bosses to allow us to use them. Another is the Public Sector Knowledge and Information Management network – which could be significant as the management of knowledge becomes an ever-more important issue for public bodies.
If there is anyone reading this blog who might be interested in either of these communities, do sign up. It’s tremendous to see people engaging with social web tools to work together, and to share their knowledge and experience. This stuff really does work, people.
Best British football ground…
…is of course the home of the mighty Reds, at least according to The Guardian:
1) The City Ground, 1935 – present
Why on earth Nottingham Forest’s board want to move away from the City Ground is be££££££££££££££££££££££yond m£££££££££y k£££££££££££££££££££££en, sorry, a key on my computer got stuck for a moment there. There’s more than enough space for paying customers as it is, and in any case, the place is a magnificent reminder of the glory days. Forest might be a third-tier club now, but the shining modernity of the Trent End Stand, overhanging the river, is positively top-class and qualifies the ground as the most idyllic of any in the country. Meanwhile take a walk round the other side of the ground past the souvenir hut – club shop it ain’t – to the cramped car park, and the place positively reeks of the 1970s; you can almost see the ghosts of Brian and Peter unloading crates of ale to feed the squad before a big match. And across the river … Meadow Lane. To move from here would be sheer lunacy, and madness to boot.
Quite right, too.
10 Cool WordPress themes
One of the many reasons why WordPress is such a super publishing platform are the many themes which are freely available to give your site a professional look and feel.
Envy is a bold and bright theme with plenty of different elements to help you personalise it.
Insense is a really classy, professional looking theme, which is just as useful for putting together a WP powered static site as it is a blog.
Perfect for photo or video based blogs.
Smart, darker theme. Sometimes themes with a black background can cause problems when inserting images – especially those with a transparent background. But Elite is still pretty smart looking.
Again, very professional looking, and the one I’ve used a few times in the past.
6. Bluvision – lucianmarin.com
A bit like Envy, in that it has lots of space for you to personalise your site’s appearance.
Nice, clean look – perfect for a personal blog.
8. Glossyblue – NDesign Studio
Glossyblue is a theme I used to use on LGNewMedia. It’s really rather lovely. I notice Tim Davies uses it for his Drupal-based blog.
9. Gridlock – Hyalineskies.com
Gridlock is a perfect theme for non-blog WordPress sites.
The theme I used for FEconnect, and I stil have a soft spot for it 