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Tag Archives: participation
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Are open standards a closed barrier? | Government Digital Service – "Fresh out of a roundtable discussion on the Open Standards: Open Opportunities consultation, Linda Humphries discusses whether open can really … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, cloud, cms, democracy, design, drupal, gcloud, gds, government, govuk, guidelines, ict, opengov, opengovernment, opensource, openstandards, participation, plone, principles, squiz, technology, web, wordpress
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Engage people on their terms, not yours
I’m always going on about how, if you want people to give up their time to help you out, then you need to make it easy for them to do so, else they won’t bother. Stefan has a lovely example, … Continue reading
Bookmarks for April 6th through April 27th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. How to beat Apple – Interesting read. Micro-Participation In Online Consultations – NIce summary and contribution to the discussion. Coté’s People Over Process » 3 Tips on Scaling Agile Development … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Apple, facebook, innovation, localgovernment, microparticipation, opencompute, participation, quangocamp, socialmedia, Software, ukgovcamp, wordpress
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Bookmarks for October 30th through December 10th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Living with rats: Nine signposts towards Our Society – Good stuff from @juliandobson Wikileaks and the Long Haul – Shirky on Wikileaks What the attacks on WikiLeaks tell us – … Continue reading
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Tagged bigsociety, budget, business, collaboration, content, cuts, economy, enterprise, EntGov, google, innovation, internet, localgovweb, opendata, opengov, opengovernment, participation, research, sharepoint, shirky, simulator, socialsoftware, strategy, transparency, uk, web, wikileaks
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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
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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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