I’m looking forward to attending the UKGovWeb barcamp this coming Saturday 26th January – though not quite sure what to expect, this being my first barcamp event. However, I’m encouraged by the fact that the organisers (and primarily Jeremy Gould)…
One for the kiddies…
Dave Briggs has posted details of an event being arranged on 26th February as part of the Community of Practice for Social Media & Online Collaboration. This will be of potential interest to anyone working in (or for) the public sector who is usin…
I guess most people choose the conferences they attend with care. There’s nothing worse than having shelled out good money (my own in most instances since I work as an independent consultant) on a 2-day conference when you realise within the first…
Euan Semple comments on the topic of social network analysis (or measuring the immeasurable!).Euan identifies two points that make him nevous about SNA: “The first is because the activity is invariably couched in terms of one group – managers, the…
Picked up today from Wikileaks, it seems our American cousins over at Guantanamo Bay have been modifying content in Wikipedia that they disagree with and adding stuff which (allegedly) gives us a more balanced picture of what they’re up to over th…
Slides from my recent presentation “Communities of Practice in Local Government” for the Online Information Conference are available on Slideshare. | View | Upload your own
Caught this item on a recent posting to Boing Boing. It shows the “security seal” tape that’s appeared over all the fire-extinguisher boxes in the London Underground. Because no terrorist would be so fiendishly clever as to counterfeit a sticky la…
Oops, missed this event in my ‘Days That Change The World’ diary, but apparently it was National Plain English Day yesterday, 11 December 2007. To mark the occasion, the Local Government Association (LGA) published a list of 100 words that public …
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on the company blog last week apologising for missteps with the roll-out of their much maligned Beacon advertising system. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with h…
