Tag Archives: jon bounds

If you don’t do it, someone else will

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Dave

Here’s more proof. Birmingham City Council are asking for people’s views on their ‘Big City Plan’. They have even created a website to help people to do so. I asked Jon Bounds, Birmingham blogger extraordinaire, what was wrong with the … Continue reading →

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Posting links

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Dave

Since delicious upgraded itself, the automatic posting of stuff I have bookmarked has stragely stopped on DavePress. Not at all sure why. Anyway, to improve things, I have installed the Postalicious plugin for WordPress, which will handle all this for … Continue reading →

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Large female required

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Dave

I was delighted to be a part of the winning pub quiz team at WordCampUK, not least because it meant that I won a wicked cool dark green WordPress tshirt. I asked the now-legendary quiz host Jon Bounds for a … Continue reading →

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Get satisfaction with your council

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Dave

Jon Bounds has come up with another brilliant idea – using the ‘people powered customer support’ site GetSatisfaction to create a community around the services provided by Birmingham City Council. So, I thought, could this work for a local council? … Continue reading →

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