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Stuff I have bookmarked for November 12th through November 25th:

• Government Connect benefits realisation fund – The Government Connect network enables secure data sharing across local and central government, helping to make the process more efficient, and ultimately resulting in improved services for our shared customers.
• Voicebox – UK online centres new site (built by me) to manage their bid for digital mentors
• Digital Mentor » Moving forward – I'm doing some work for UK online centres on their new online collaborative site.
• Miro – free, open source internet tv and video player – Cool looking video feed aggregator
• Improving communication « Lords of the Blog – Lord Norton is leading a crusade to make gov't consultation better

Stuff I have bookmarked for November 7th through November 11th:

• Where Have You Wheelie Bin? – Share your photos of wheelie bins. Via Tom Watson.
• sipgate.co.uk – free phone service over your broadband link – voice over ip provider. – A free VOIP service that seems to offer a no cost telephone number to ring!
• Flax: find freedom – Open source search engine
• The Cambridge Network – "The Mission of the Cambridge Network is to link like minded people from business and academia to each other and to the global high technology community for the benefit of the Cambridge region. "
• Digital tormet – Tracey Todhunter explains her concerns about the digital mentor initiative

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 30th through November 6th:

• Change.gov – Obama's pre-inauguration website. *Great* URL!
• Sunderland Community BarCamp – Sunderland Council appear to be hosting their own Barcamp. Crazy!
• Innovation Catalyst | The Young Foundation – "Despite all the good work of the last decade in local government, there is still a need within the sector to develop new approaches to delivery if we are going to meet the challenges facing public services both now and in the future."
• The cynicism at the heart of the communities agenda – "With this in mind, the proposed duty on local authorities to "promote democracy" is not only a curiously bloodless way of engaging the disengaged. More worrying is the notion that democracy can be imposed by diktat. This authoritarian bent to the communities agenda reveals a thinly veiled attempt to paper over the exhaustion of politics and the increasing isolation of a clueless and desparate political class. "
• Demos | Publications | Network Citizens – "humans are social animals, spinning intricate webs of relationships with friends, colleagues, neighbours and enemies. These networks have always been with us, but the advance of networking technologies, changes to our interconnected economy and an altering job market have super-charged the power of networking, catapulting it to the heart of organisational thinking."

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 25th through October 28th:

• Read Write Gov | PhillipDade.com – Phillip, who works on the web team at Great Yarmouth Council, gives ReadWriteGov a mention. Good on him!
• solutions4inclusion – Home – Useful looking examples of digital inclusion work
• Council of Europe’s policy recommendations on eDemocracy – "Action required: Council of Europe asks for comments on final draft of policy recommendations on eDemocracy"
• LineBuzz.com – Inline Blog Comments – Interesting way of allowing comments on sections of a blog post – needs javascript though
• King’s Fund – NHS must rise to technology challenge and catch up with other industries, says The King’s Fund – "The NHS should make it more convenient for the public to receive the care they need by making use of everyday technology, according to two new reports from The King's Fund."

Stuff I have bookmarked for October 22nd through October 25th:

• Leopard: How to Install WordPress – How to get wordpress running locally on a mac
• Digital Inclusion – Communities and neighbourhoods – Communities and Local Government – "While the majority of people in the UK are active participants in the digital revolution, these benefits are not distributed equally to all groups and communities. Inequality in the use and application of digital technologies is a new driver of social exclusion in the 21st century, which risks accelerating existing social divides and creating new ones. Digital exclusion is a symptom of wider exclusion, but also a cause"
• Interview: Tom Steinberg of MySociety | Technology | The Guardian – Michael Cross talks to Tom Steinberg. Good stuff, and hopefully gets the message out to those not in the govweb echo chamber! 😉
• A mini conference for Facilitating Online – WikiEducator – Cool looking online conference, via Ed Mitchell
• How to define a place – "The internet is the first port for new information these days – ask any encyclopedia salesman." Great stuff on hyperlocal news reporting and communities online from Will Perrin