wordpress – Page 7 – Dave Briggs

Crowd sourcing ideas with WordPress

June 28, 2011

For a customer, we at Kind of Digital have been putting together a prototype system using WordPress to crowdsource ideas from the public.

We’ve done plenty of reading about previous attempts at this sort of thing, and hopefully have avoided a few of the traps that other projects of this type have fallen into.

Our system:

Is completely configurable and customisable in terms of look and feel, branding etc
Can ask for various bits of information in the idea submitting process to help structure the contributions
Allows ideas to be rated and commented on by other visitors
Displays prominent lists of the most popular and latest ideas to be submitted
All content can be pre-moderated before being published
As it’s WordPress, you can publish other content like news or blog posts and static pages with help and other information in
As it’s all open source, you can pull your data out whenever you like and host it somewhere else

Right now, we’re just tidying up the prototype. I’d share the screenshots, but the branding makes it pretty obvious who the client is, so I probably shouldn’t.

However, if anyone is interested, we’re definitely planning on making it a service we can provide to other organisations, and it’ll be pretty keenly priced.

If you’d like to know more, and maybe get a private demonstration of what we have right now, drop me a line at dave@kindofdigital.com.

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 February 23rd through April 4th

April 5, 2011

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

Reaping the benefits of shared services – Interesting interview with @terryhuggins on the shared services arrangement between South Holland and East Lindsay councils.
UK IT Strategy Sets the Pace for All European Governments, But Can They Deliver? – Interesting coverage of the new UK gov IT strategy
NESTA – Innovation in Public Sector Organisations – "A pilot survey for measuring innovation across the public sector" – interesting read
Loosemore leads Lane Fox vision work | Puffbox.com – Nice update from Simon on some interesting developments.
Things about Blogging – Great blogging tips
COI is dead, long live the GCC? – Good coverage of the future of COI from Andrew.
Seldom a love story: IT and end users – O’Reilly Radar – "Prioritization must be determined by the business, not an IT staffer who's just trying to do the right thing."
Fear of Facebook: Thoughts On The Meaning of Social – "Things aren’t getting any better in terms of privacy related fears."
The zero cost CMS | Stephen Hale – "The digital communications teams I’ve worked in have all spent too much of their time finding ways around the CMS, and not enough time actually communicating."
Citizen journalist or citizen? – Good stuff on bloggers reporting on councils by @podnosh

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 3rd through October 19th

October 30, 2010

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

Solace 2010 write up; Localism, hash tags and a reflection on priorities – Great write up from Catherine Howe.
Thriving too: Big Society: Yours Mine and Ours – "So how do smaller networks, organisations and projects engage with Big Society if they don’t feel completely comfortable in the space?"
How #gmp24 happened – "The challenge was to find a way to show people the wide range of issues the police are called to deal with."
The Problem with WordPress at Helpful Technology: Blog – Great summary of what sounds like a great event.
When social media reveal IT’s soft belly – "When I was in Canada last week, I visited two provincial government organizations that offered two intriguing examples of how social media are challenging their IT organizations."
Who Should be Your Chief Collaboration Officer? – Whose in charge of getting people to talk to each other in your organisation?
Jimmy Leach: Keep the blogs alight – "We may not solve foreign policy issues through blogs, but we can at least explain them better."
Open source based Managed Learning platform saves public purse £36 million – Learning Pool saves government cash. Find out how.
Too much money plays against government 2.0 – "Definitely an interesting perspective: transparency is not always a desirable attribute, and government 2.0 is more interesting – and useful – where the are scarce rather than abundant resources."
Local By Social – Series of events around the country by LGID promoting online innovation in local gov.
PDF Europe round up – Great summary of the recent PDF Europe event from @curiousc
Catch.com – Interesting looking Evernote alternative.
Training lessons learned: Code dojo, whiteboards, interactivity – "Training can be an incredibly boring, frustrating exercise."
The four sorts of Innovation-Getter | Kate Bennet – "After working in an Innovation team for the last year it’s become apparent that there are four sorts of “innovation-getters” in organisations."
The Stack: The Fifteen Classes of the Social Business Software Suite – Interesting attempt at classification of social tech

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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