Blogs in plain English
Another excellent video from Lee Lefever over at Common Craft. This one explains Blogs – in plain English!
Online Information 2007 – Communities of Practice in Local Government
A thought-provoking and highly entertaining presentation from Roo Reynolds (IBM’s ‘Metaverse Evangelist’) at today’s Online Information Conference. I came away with a resolution to spend some time getting to grips with Second Life with a view to s…
RSS Explained
It remains something of a tragedy that most public sector web sites still don’t support RSS. I can probably accept that council officers and other senior public sector workers don’t understand what RSS is, but surely the various ICT departments or…
Responsibilities and Guidelines for Communities of Practice.
I was looking for some inspiration in putting together some guidelines, rules and policies for online communities of practice. Nancy White over at Full Circle Associates is always a good starting place for this sort of thing. Here is another examp…
HMRC loses personal details for 25million people
So, we wake up today to the news that our favorite government agency – Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been responsible for the loss of personal data for 25 million people. The data included names, addresses, bank details, national in…
Online Information Conference 2007 – Communities of Practice in Local Government
I will be presenting at the Online Information Conference 2007 on Wednesday 5th December, on the topic “Communities of Practice in Local Government”, which is part of the overall theme of connecting users and harnessing intelligence using social n…
The emerging role of the Technology Steward
Just picked up a new blog by Caren Levine at Techstew, which comments on the role of the ‘Technology Steward’. This is something I’ve been doing for the past 18 months for the I&DeA’s community of practice platform for local government. It’s good …
Social Networking with Sharepoint Server 2007 – a limited solution to a wider business requirement
The most comprehensive summary I’ve read so far on Microsoft’s foray into social networking via their Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) product. The article is an extract from a forthcoming white paper written by three Microsoft …
Information Evolution and Revolution
Search, information, cetgorisation, tagging, social bookmarking, social media – it’s all here in another excellent video from Mike Wesch.
Community of Practice Facilitator’s Peer Assist
I attended a very useful session the other day, organised by my colleagues over at the I&DeA ,which brought a number of experienced community of practice facilitators together to their share knowledge and experience with two fairly new CoP facilit…