Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: emacs bites – learn emacs and lisp in bite sized chunks The real deal | by @helenmilner Citizens Advice Bureau: showing things aren’t working as they should Remembering the Apple Newton’s…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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Tools I use for learning
Recently, as part of a survey of members of the Social Learning Centre, I put together a list of ten sites or apps I use a lot in my own learning activity. Actually, I thought ten was rather a lot, so to share it here, I thought I'd whittle it down to half that number.
I think it's useful to always remind yourself of the tools you use regularly in your own activity, particularly if you spend time designing sites, systems and platforms for others to use.
Anyway, hit 'Read more' to see the list.
Decline and fall?
Twitter has been taking a bit of a pasting in the technology media world recently. Could this mean it is facing a bleak future, and could become the new MySpace, or Friendster? Or even - the horror! - FriendsReunited?
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: HELLO CAMPERS: Three years on from the first localgovcamp… so whats changed? – Nice bit of reflection from Dan Slee ahead of Saturday's shindig. Knowledge Hub: A response – Steve Dale…
Online PR – join in or be left behind
I admit it: I wasn’t always that interested in the internet and social media.
In all honesty I was a tad old-school – I’d started out as a newspaper journalist before the internet really took off, and before social media became mainstream.
Digital democracy: some quick and easy ideas
Following up on my earlier post on tweeting meetings, here are a bunch of quick, easy - and probably free - ideas for getting started with digital engagement.
Digital democracy: tweeting meetings
I'm giving a talk today at a conference in Norwich for parish and town councils and one of the things I want to do is just to share some really simple ideas on how councils could get some online interactivity going.
One of those ideas was to tweet meetings. I asked my network on Twitter for examples, and was deluged!
Writing an effective tweet
Writing a tweet is easy - after all, what can you get wrong when you only have 140 characters to play with?
Quite a lot, it turns out.
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Tales of the city: the rise of the local blog – "In its daily blogposts, Spitalfields Life aims to portray the full colour of life in London's East End. But…
The Twitter guide, updated!
One of the more popular things I have written is the guide to using Twitter in the public sector, published by my good friends at Learning Pool. It was first produce a couple of years ago and was due an…