via flickr.com The New York Public Library may well be the queen of municipal libraries. Featured in films and fabled among the public radio listening classes of the US, I’ve admired it from afar my whole life even though I’ve never climbed its famous steps guarded by stone lions. But even such hallowed institutions are [...]
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I’d been invited up to Kirklees to give a talk about social media – entitled ‘social media, what’s it all about’ – and rather typically I scuppered that title. I’m a maverick, me. Instead I went with Local by social: Crisis and opportunity for social media in local public services. For one thing, I [...]
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via flickr.com We were in Greenwich yesterday, visiting the National Maritime museum. Not all of it was air conditioned and we were relaxing on the long walk between the museum proper and The Queen’s House. This bride and groom (to be) were getting ready for a photo shoot (if you ask me, they should have [...]
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Picture the scene, it’s just before the evening rush hour really ramps in. But the District Line to Wimbledon is already standing room only and it’s hot. Just before the doors close a young woman jumps in. She’s wearing a crisp white shirt, just a little bit too tight. Graduate job seeker in marketing, maybe? [...]
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…or why licenses matter in public sector information assets A personal take I think my little boy is adorable. What mother doesn’t? I live very far away from my childhood friends and family. I use Flickr as a means of sharing photos of my boy with them. Now, I know that some people will disagree [...]
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Here are a couple of events not to miss. In fact, they are so not-missable, that I am interrupting my holiday to attend – and dragging my visiting mother along to at least one of them. I’m also interrupting a day off tomorrow to go to another one (but it’s full, so no point mentioning [...]
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