Presentation: Communities of Practice in Local Government
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Security Seals on London Underground
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…
100 Banned Words
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 …
Beacon saga; facebook apologises
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…
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…