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What Learning Pool is all about

Dave — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:48:33 +0000

In case you didn’t know…

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Why you can’t work at work

Dave — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:49:56 +0000

Jason Fried of 37 Signals (the guys who make cool software like Basecamp and Highrise, and the great books Rework and Getting Real) talks on this video on why interruptions are the enemy of getting stuff done.

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GovCamp explained, kind of

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:38:45 +0000

Thanks to David Wilcox for being there with the camera!

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Kodak Zi8 review

Dave — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:49:23 +0000

I recently got a Kodak Zi8 video camera. It’s like a beefed up Flip and I think it should be considered the default choice for social reporters everywhere.

I did this video review of it, which turned out even ropier than I thought it would. Still, I’m learning.

Ironically, the review was recorded using a Flip. Maybe that’s my excuse?

Nick Booth has just published a nice post, where he recommends the Flip over the Kodak for ease of use.

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Google Dashboard

Dave — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:35 +0000

Google now let you see (almost) all the information on (almost) all the services you use with your Google Account, with Google Dashboard.

In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we’ve built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. Today, the Dashboard covers more than 20 products and services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, Latitude and many more. The scale and level of detail of the Dashboard is unprecedented, and we’re delighted to be the first Internet company to offer this — and we hope it will become the standard. Watch this quick video to learn more and then try it out for yourself at www.google.com/dashboard.

Here’s a video explaining more.

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Understanding Finance for Business

Dave — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:43:41 +0000

I’m spending some time today doing some social reporting for EEDA, my local regional development agency, at one of their Understanding Finance for Business workshops. I’m taking photos and recording quick interviews with some of those attending, as well as the presenters.

Here’s David Gill, Director of the St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge, who are running the workshops on behalf of EEDA, introducing the programme and what it is all about:

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Young Rewired State

Dave — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:15:11 +0000

As pointed out by Nick.

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Be Vocal

Dave — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:18:21 +0000

Be Vocal is

A site about social media for social good in Birmingham and using the internet to turn public data into something useful.

It’s part of the ‘Birmingham Open City’ project run by Digital Birmingham with a grant from the Timely Information for Citizens programme set up by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Nick Booth is involved, so it must be good. Here he explains what it is all about:

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Google spreadsheet forms video

Dave — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:21 +0000

Nice video from Google explaining the forms function in Docs‘ spreadsheets, which I have found my self starting to use rather a lot.

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Videopress

Dave — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:34:38 +0000

Video hosting is always a bit of a bother, as no one service does it all, as far as I am aware.

I did a fair bit of social reporting last week, and am already running into difficulties in finding a hosting solution that can cope with the size of the files I am wanting to upload; and which is accessible within the organisations that need to see them.

It turns out that my usual favourite choice, Vimeo, is blocked in a hell of a lot of places.

Well, VideoPress looks like it might be worth looking into. It’s been created by Automattic, the guys behind WordPress and various other cool things. It’s a video upload and hosting service that uses WordPress.com as its back end, as far as I can tell. But you can embed your videos wherever you like.

Here’s a video explaining more.