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Bookmarks for April 6th through April 27th

April 27, 2011

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

How to beat Apple – Interesting read.
Micro-Participation In Online Consultations – NIce summary and contribution to the discussion.
Coté’s People Over Process » 3 Tips on Scaling Agile Development – "At some point, adopting Agile development becomes an organizational change management exercise that has little do with Agile itself."
Cash for QuangoCamp – Great work @jukesie getting this going
How to waste public funds and alienate voters – How to spot box ticking exercises. Good stuff from Edward at Involve.
The New Guy’s Computer – (37signals) – Nice list of handy Mac tools.
Recipe For Baked WordPress – Quick guide to making your WP site a bit more stable.
Open Compute Project – Facebook opens up their infrastructure.
On innovation: How to make trouble productively – Ten nice tips.
I’m worried about the Social Media Folk in Localgov – How to get by in from the powers that be, from @carlhaggerty

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

Bookmarks for October 30th through December 10th

December 10, 2010

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Living with rats: Nine signposts towards Our Society – Good stuff from @juliandobson
Wikileaks and the Long Haul – Shirky on Wikileaks
What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us – John Naughton nails it on the Wikileaks saga.
Budget consultation approaches by Michele Ide-Smith – Nice summary of some of the recent work from Michele.
I’m not anti-SharePoint – chieftech’s blog – Yup – Sharepoint's problems are usually in its implementation, not in the software itself.
Government data in the public domain – intrinsically good, right? – Great stuff from @rossferg
Connected Kingdom – "The UK has a thriving internet economy. It has the potential to grow even bigger. We want your ideas for ways to make that growth happen."
Learning about content strategy by Michele Ide-Smith – Great stuff on organising your website contributors and getting processes and systems right from Michele.
Innovation functions in large organisations – Great insights from @katebennet on innovating.
eDiplomacy: The US State Department’s Global Collaborative Backbone – Interesting stuff on collaborative tech in US.gov

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

Bookmarks for September 10th through September 14th

September 17, 2010

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

MindQuilt – "MindQuilt is an enterprise knowledge management platform with intelligent question and answer matchmaking and gaming achievement dynamics."
Tiny Tiny RSS – Host your own Google Reader clone.
Challenge.gov : The central platform for all US Government challenges, contests and innovation prizes. – "Challenge.gov is a place where the public and government can solve problems together."
The future of digital public services – "The key to this is that Directgov should continue to move to be the facilitators not owners or delivers of the content and apps, they should establish the proper governance, standards and quality assurance for app providers, setting minimum standards that ensure quality and interoperability."
WordPress › Email Post Changes plugin – Potentially spectacularly helpful WordPress plugin.
Beyond Access – a "Public Consultation on access to information and open government data"
Forking is a Feature – Anil Dash – "Moving forward, there are a lot more lessons we can learn if we build our social tools with the assumption that no one version of any document, app, or narrative needs to be the definitive one. We might even make our software, and our communities, more inclusive if we embrace the forking ourselves."
Resources for exploring social media participation – Brill stuff from @timdavies on online youth participation.
The Social Network: Facebook’s intriguing world revealed – "How did Mark Zuckerberg, the son of a dentist father and a psychologist mother, from a comfortably middle-class background, become one of the most powerful men in the world?"
Hand Made from Social Spaces – "Hand Made is a beautiful collaborative book with 26 innovative perspectives and projects from around the world, over 230 pages, about new ways of creating connection and community. The projects have been carefully selected because they have all been developed with new thinking and methodologies and involve Learning, Sharing or Making."
A Brief Guide To Reaching Unbelievably High Levels Of Participation In Your Online Community – Some great tips in here.

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

Bookmarks for August 11th through August 18th

August 18, 2010

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

OnePeople › Open source matters to open government. Really. – "Both DiMaio and Caudill make the mistake of believing that open source is about making cheap bits. Instead, it’s a blueprint for effective collaboration on a massive scale."
Categorisation and other exciting details – "Part of the reason for wanting wider comment is the fact that I am increasingly inclined to think that the emphasis on civic space building is very obviously on the creation and sustainability of hyperlocal communities – with the role of the democratic body being to connect to and interact with these more social groupings."
Minds in the Cloud – Exploring the Present and Future Possibilities of Cloud Computing – Interesting collection of videos.
The future of government is open – "With open source software, governments developing open information innovations have the freedom to share software code and applications with other like-minded governments and organizations."
Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A.M. Turing – I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"
The Social PR Blog – Great blog for comms/PR folk on how to get social right.
Read+Comment | Hassle-free publishing and commenting on your documents – Incredibly cool commentable documents as a service platform from Steph Gray.
Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information – Useful list
What Happened to Yahoo – "Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company."
What matters in net neutrality – Jonathan Zittrain's take on the Google/Verizon net neutrality kerfuffle.

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

Bookmarks for August 5th through August 11th

August 11, 2010

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I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Splashpath – “Splashpath is a free service for Leisure Operators to create, update and communicate swimming pool timetables”
The Value of Transparency Is At The Boundary between Government and Society – “Open government is not a way to outsource problem solutions to others.”
More on Apps for Elephants | Public Strategist – Further exposition from Stefan on the ‘should gov develop mobile apps?’ debate.
Devour – “Devour sifts out the best videos and posts the well-curated collection every weekday. Fewer cute kittens, fewer skateboarding nutshots, fewer tween heart throbs, and lots more awesome.”
Don’t Get Fireballed | brown blog – Nice guide to protecting a WordPress site from traffic overload.
Dig Up Political Influence | Poligraft – Looks interesting and cool, though not sure I fully understand it
Early History of HTML – 1990 to 1992 – “HTML is the language that powers the Web in many respects, as the lingua franca that Web browsers are expected to be able to render. HTML has had unprecedented levels of success, and the uptake is all the more surprising when you realise that it was only invented in 1990, and few people knew about it before 1993.”
10 Reasons NOT to Ban Social Media in Your Organization – Handy list.
UK ICT classes killing kids’ interest in tech – “The Royal Society is to investigate why British schools are failing to interest children in information technology – and why numbers taking classes are falling so fast.”
Crowdsourcing Is Far From Easy for Government – “Once again, this case proves the disconnect between engaging citizens (and voters) and engaging government employees. For open government to work, both aspects need to be addressed and possibly synchronized.”

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

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