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An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Video explaining the Local Government Digital Quality Model
This is, by its nature, massively cringe, but I felt it necessary. It’s a video explaining the Local Government Digital Quality Model that I have been working away on in my spare time recently.
Interesting links – 18 Feb 2021
I find interesting things to read, bookmark them, save a chunk of text as a quote, and then occasionally copy and paste it all into a blog post, so you don’t have to. Digital Inclusion Toolkit: now live Leeds and…
The triumph of the nerds
If you have a few hours to spare, you could do a lot worse than to spend them watching the three episodes that make up Triumph of the Nerds, a 1995 documentary charting the history of the microcomputer industry. From the…
Planning digital engagement
I recorded this a little while ago to go alongside some other training and consulting work I was doing at the time. I basically explain how to plan out digital engagement work to ensure it is most likely to succeed,…
Building online communities webinar recording
I had a good time presenting a webinar this morning about managing online communities. As always, I recorded the whole thing for your infotainment:
Donald Clark on 2,500 years of learning theory
Thanks to the top people at Learning Pool, here’s a great video of Donald Clark talking about learning theory through the ages.
The art of the tweet
Nice simple video from Twitter.
Digital learning materials – any point to video?
Here’s one you can all help me with. When putting together learning materials – particularly aimed at a public sector audience – what’s the best format to use? More specifically – is there any use in using video? Problems with…
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Will the Bill and Mary show have a happy ending? [good stuff on high streets] The web giants pumping us for information – by @jjn1 Filling an empty shop with photos…
Codebunk
Codebunk looks like a neat in the browser editor for writing and testing code. Particularly useful, I think, for those learning to program. Here’s a video that demonstrates how it works.
Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley
Excellent stuff: Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death…
THIS IS WATER – By David Foster Wallace
Just fabulous.
Lloyd Davis: 5 Open Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Great video of a talk from Lloyd:
PdF 2010 – Clay Shirky: Rethinking Representation
via Jon Worth
Introducing Kind of Digital’s digital engagement training library
Quite excited about this! Affordable, scalable digital engagement training for your whole organisation. Get access to over one hundred instructional videos on how to use digital tools to engage with citizens and communities. From getting started with Twitter and Facebook…
Covering events with Kind of Digital
One bit of work we’ve been doing a fair bit of at Kind of Digital is putting events on the web. One example is the seminar that took place in Leeds yesterday, run by Local Government Yorkshire and Humber. The…
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. 2011 London Social Business Summit – Great content from this event. Introducing South West LocalGovCamp #swlocalgc « Carl’s Notepad – This should be a good one! ’100 million comments a…
Bookmarks for August 5th through August 11th
EAVB_CFHFXKJFDR 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…
Bookmarks for April 11th through April 16th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. A New Approach to Printing – “a service that enables any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer.” Governments and Citizens: You Don’t Own…