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Stuff I have bookmarked for July 11th through July 26th:

• Guide to Cross-Government Collaboration ~ Huddle – "Welcome to Huddle.net’s Guide to Collaboration for government and public sector. We tried to keep it simple, informative and agnostic."
• Open Atrium – "Part intranet, part do-it-yourself project with a kick of open source hotness"
• WordPress › KB Advanced RSS Widget « WordPress Plugins – A decent wordpress widget for displaying RSS feeds. Much better than the default one.
• LocalGovCamp changed my life « Carl’s Notepad – "Ok, so it didn’t change my life as such, but it has changed my perspective on knowledge sharing and encouraging others to participate – either way – if you get a chance to attend a similar event DO."
• Towards an Interactive Charter – "Towards an Interactive Charter is a project to encourage and support public and voluntary sector organisations in unlocking their interactive potential through the use of social media."

Stuff I have bookmarked for June 3rd through July 4th:

• I want to – Phil Bradley's awesome blog of web 2.0 tools and services.
• Online debate community for logical, passionate people – CreateDebate – CreateDebate is a social tool that democratizes the decision-making process through online debate.
• Downloads « Building a DIY website – Useful stuff for community websites
• Barack Obama won using ‘old school’ technology, says his campaign manager | Media | guardian.co.uk – "David Plouffe, mastermind of Obama's 'web 2.0 campaign', downplays role of Facebook and Twitter in US election victory"
• LocalGov.co.uk – Your authority on UK Local Government > Local Government News & Analysis > Council freezes Twitter account after insult gaffe – "How anyone could ever suggest that a public body could control a Twitter account is beyond me."

  CLASSIC!

Stuff I have bookmarked for May 17th through June 1st:

• They Want To Work For You Wiki – "Anyone can edit this directory of candidates standing for the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."
• mySociety » Blog Archive » What the government doesn’t understand about the Internet, and what to do about it – "What is different is the way in which the Internet changes social and economic practices – the vector of attack. In the 20th century, advancement of human welfare went hand in hand with the rise of companies that used economies of scale to deliver better goods and services for customers. Technology effectively made it possible and much easier to be a big, highly productive company, to gather expertise and capital together and to target markets for maximum yields."
• YouTube looking at standalone ‘SafeTube’ site for families | Media | guardian.co.uk – "YouTube is exploring the introduction of a family-friendly 'SafeTube' version of the site as part of its programme of improving safety and content standards"
• answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices – Some useful q&as on what young people do online
• What makes a good LPA web site? « Portal Director – "I’d be very interested to hear your views on what a good local authority planning web site contains and some examples of best practise. I’m happy for those of you at LPAs to blow your own trumpet and I’ll moderate out any intemperate responses."

Stuff I have bookmarked for May 4th through May 16th:

• Baby steps in Social Media News Releases – "The Social Media News Release (SMNR) updates the old press notice and video news release for a social media age. Factual bullet points instead of marketingese. Embedded video and images for media outlets and bloggers to use. Social bookmarking buttons to help users to spread the word. Related documents and context to help the lazy or time-poor to put the report in context."
• Information for life – "a blog from Opportunity Links discussing the challenges of information delivery to the public. We hope to use this blog to explore how we can fulfil our mission statement: “We believe that people should have access to quality information to empower and support them in the choices they make.” "
• Wolfram|Alpha – "Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone."
• Digital Engagement | Director of Digital Engagement – A new blog at the Cabinet Office for the Director of Digital Engagement
• Can’t Connect… Won’t Connect » the billblog – "Imagine how nice it would be if most wireless networks were suddenly five or even ten times faster and generally reliable."
• socialstrategy:start [Practical Participation] – "There are many small hurdles to effective use of social media and technology in public services. In democratic engagement and participation; communications and outreach; education; or just about any other area of work – the same soluble barriers hold up action. "
• Acorn, the image editor for humans. – I'm using Pixelmator at the moment to do my web graphic editing. @billt recommends Acorn though, might give it a go.

Stuff I have bookmarked for April 19th through April 26th:

• Oh Yeah? Prove It. | Power Shift – Social Media Blog – Useful piece on measuring social media activity
• OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles : Tim’s Blog – Terrific stuff from TIm
• Read me first: Shutdown of Wikia Search proves empty rhetoric of collaboration, says Seth Finkelstein | Technology | The Guardian – Sometimes, a business project that is predicted as likely to fail, both by experts in the field and ­successful entrepreneurs, is not a misunderstood vision but truly flawed.
• About « Digital Britain Unconference – "In the light of the Digital Britain Summit, some people got together on Twitter with the suggestion of an unconference to discuss the Digital Britain report, and make recommendations to it.

  This web space is set up to facilitate this (fast-moving!) process and publish the conclusions from the events."

• Thought Store: Thoughts on my thesis – Sarah Lay is looking for ideas to research in the area of local gov and online media.