An online notebook
Google have announced something really rather interesting called Wave. (Warning: looooooong video) Essentially, A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at … Keep reading
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. This creates a noticeable lag that gets in the way of collaboration. You start editing … Keep reading
An awful lot of the posts I write here on DavePress are focused on external communication and collaboration – how organisations can engage and consult better with other people using the web. But there is massive potential in using social web technology internally as well, though it isn’t something I talk about an awful lot. … Keep reading
Quite a few folk have been lucky enough to see Us Now, a film made by Banyak Films in association with the RSA. Ivo Gormley directs. Here is how the film is described on its website: Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now … Keep reading
I have started a wiki to collect together resources and stories of where local government has used the web in interesting ways. You can find it at http://localgov.pbwiki.com/ – please visit and add any bits you can think of. If you need the password, it’s mentioned a couple of times on the home page.