An online notebook
Here’s more proof. Birmingham City Council are asking for people’s views on their ‘Big City Plan’. They have even created a website to help people to do so. I asked Jon Bounds, Birmingham blogger extraordinaire, what was wrong with the Council’s approach. He answered: Not so much “wrong” per-se as we thought helping discussion (rather … Keep reading
Since delicious upgraded itself, the automatic posting of stuff I have bookmarked has stragely stopped on DavePress. Not at all sure why. Anyway, to improve things, I have installed the Postalicious plugin for WordPress, which will handle all this for me, on the recommendation of the social media John Virgo, Jon Bounds. There are quite … Keep reading
I was delighted to be a part of the winning pub quiz team at WordCampUK, not least because it meant that I won a wicked cool dark green WordPress tshirt. I asked the now-legendary quiz host Jon Bounds for a large, and a large was what I got. Only, it’s in the ladies style, which … Keep reading
Jon Bounds has come up with another brilliant idea – using the ‘people powered customer support’ site GetSatisfaction to create a community around the services provided by Birmingham City Council. So, I thought, could this work for a local council? Imagine time saved by council officials if knowledgeable citizens helped answer questions, imagine the resources … Keep reading