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A blog about technology, culture and the bits in between, with a focus on government and public services. Written and curated by Dave Briggs, founder and director of Kind of Digital. Find out more.
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
DavePress podcast 2 – Andrew Beeken
In the second DavePress podcast I chat to Andrew Beeken of the City of Lincoln Council about the new open data site he has just launched, data.lincoln.gov.uk. [audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/davepress/DavePressEp2.mp3] If you can’t, or don’t want to, use the flash player, you can download the .mp3 … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew beeken, data, lincoln, lincoln city council, open data, open government, opendata, wordpress
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Opportunities for serendipity
Excellent stuff from Andrew McAfee: I think serendipity is part of what underlies Metcalfe’s Law and a big part of the explanation for Eric Raymond’s insight that ‘given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.’ Knowledge workers and their organizations should be doing … Continue reading
Posted in culture, EntGov
Tagged andrew mcafee, enterprise 2.0, Knowledge management, serendipity
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More on recruitment and talent management
Following up on my earlier post on good things to look for in people when you are hiring - Recruit the internet-savvy – I picked up on some useful notes whilst at TechCrunch‘s GeeknRolla on recruiting into startups, which I think … Continue reading
Posted in culture, People
Tagged geeknrolla, gknr, hiring, innovation, recruitment, songkick, talent, workforce
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Enterprise mashups
Quite a few people – at least those that read this blog and others like it – are comfortable with the idea of mashups, the activity of taking data from one source, and combining it with one or more others … Continue reading
