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Awesomeness off of the internet for September 13th to September 16th:

• The US Government Is Going Google – "It looks like The White House has copied a page from Google’s playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to the cloud."
• The Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front) – "We intend for this site to be a central location for information on how to move your data in and out of Google products."
• @2gov – Civic Participation Made Simple – "Simply include @2gov in tweets about issues that matter to you. We identify your specific representatives and send them professional reports with your messages (even if they aren't on Twitter!)"
• Why everyone’s invited to the tenth birthday bash for Blogger | John Naughton | Technology | The Observer – "…this month also sees another significant anniversary which has received less attention. For Blogger, the web service that enabled anyone who could type to publish online, is 10 years old this month."
• Councils urged to hasten adoption of social media – 10 Sep 2009 – Computing – "Councils have been left to their own devices both in how they put information online and in how they use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, as well as tools such as RSS, blogs and open data interfaces."

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 9th through September 12th:

• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: How do you create a culture that is not afraid to fail (or be more receptive to social media?) – Great post on failing better.
• Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network! – "Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community"
• Triplify – "Triplify provides a building block for the semantification of Web applications. Triplify is a small plugin for Web applications, which converts database content into RDF or JSON feeds and provides a Linked Data interface."
• Code For America – "We believe there is a wealth of talent in the web industry eager to contribute to the rebuilding of America."
• What do we mean by engagement online? – "…my guess is no engagement = no chance of learning with others or from content."

Stuff I have bookmarked for September 2nd through September 6th:

• How to Keep WordPress Secure – The official word on preventing your WP site getting hacked.
• The Ugliest Website in the World – “Craigslist is willing to do the basic, boring stuff again and again and again. It thinks long-term. It puts people first. It trusts them. And millions of people trust it back and use it every day to find love and cars and stuff. Craigslist, the anti-brand, is one of the biggest brands of the 21st Century.”
• Idea Management – Innovation Management – Crowdsourcing – Suggestion Box – Customer Feedback – “IdeaScale enables companies to build communities based on the simple model of crowdsourcing. It begins with an idea posted to your IdeaScale portal by a user. Each idea is then expanded by voting and comments from the community.”
• A Fond Farewell to Nomad – “As of 06 November 2009, after six highly successful years Nomad will be ceasing its activity to promote mobile and flexible working in the public sector.”

Stuff I have bookmarked for August 20th through September 2nd:

• Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.”
• Derry firm to sign £20m contract – Derry Today – “High-tech Derry firm, Learning Pool, is set to sign a major international contract which could be worth £20 million.” Onwards and upwards for the LP team!
• Local Government Engagement Online Research » Blog Archive » Special Feature: Understanding Collaborative Learning with Hadley Beeman and Diving into the Learning Pool – “Collaborative learning is taking the principle of people working together and having ideas bouncing off each other and take command of new material better than they would on their own. Adding the layer of technology making it possible for them to do that when they’re not in the same place or not around at the same time.”
• LocalGovCamb | Google Groups – A Google Group for the Cambridge LocalGovCamp

Stuff I have bookmarked for July 27th through August 20th:

• Linked data, swings and roundabouts « Policy and Performance – "We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps key to making this happen is to look to ourselves first and begin to share data and make it accessible within the sector, with partners and most importantly to the public."
• Help Give Them a Voice – Nice wordpress site from DoH and DCSF promoting social work careers.
• Search Find Learn – Great e-learning blog from @michellegallen
• Google Groups Integrates with Google’s Web Apps – "Google Groups is one of the services that would benefit a lot from an integration with Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and other Google apps. It makes sense to create a document and to collaborate with other group members or to create a calendar and share it with your group."
• FutureGov » Features Uncategorized » What social technologies mean for public services – "Increasingly, the state is being seen as a facilitator, cheerleader and champion, rather than commander-in-chief; government as a convenor of interests, just one (albeit important) player in a patchwork quilt of public service delivery."