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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Stimulating informed debate around AV
Steph provides an update on the AVdebate project (cross-posted from Helpful Technology). Six weeks ago, Dave kicked off a little project which he described as follows: I’m rather interested in the referendum that we are going get get next May in … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, Guest post
Tagged avdebate, debate, democracy, discussion, voting reform
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Bookmarks for September 10th through September 14th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. MindQuilt – "MindQuilt is an enterprise knowledge management platform with intelligent question and answer matchmaking and gaming achievement dynamics." Tiny Tiny RSS – Host your own Google Reader clone. Challenge.gov … Continue reading
Posted in Bookmarks
Tagged aggregator, book, challengedotgov, collaboration, Communities, community, communitymanager, development, digitalengagement, directgov, Email, enterprise2.0, facebook, forking, git, github, handmade, km, knowledgemanagement, microsoft, mlf, nice, opendata, opengov, opengovernment, opensource, participation, podnosh, RSS, socialspaces, thriving, usa, wordpress, workflow, writetoreply, youth, youthworkonline, zuckerberg
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Meet the communities
My good friend Steph Gray is organising a fab little event to get public sector types and existing online communities of interest together to see how they can work together. It’s a great idea for an event and should be … Continue reading
6 months of Google
Paul McElvaney, Director at Learning Pool, posts an update on how the company is faring with Google’s suite of enterprise tools for email, calendaring etc. Learning Pool moved its corporate systems like email, calendaring and document storage into a Google … Continue reading
Democracy, decisions and politicians
I’m thrashing around with a post about consultation, engagement and crowdsourcing and why efforts in this direction haven’t been massively successful for governments – whether in the UK or elsewhere. I’ll get it into a fit state to publish one … Continue reading
