via flickr.com I’ve just seen in the Social Media Community of Practice that folks from four separate local authorities are collaborating on guidance on social media for the public sector in a wiki. They’re only just starting off, but there’s already a fair bit of content there. Their primary focus is libraries, but there’s a [...]
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I’ve spent the last five days in day-long development meetings for the Knowledge Hub. The Knowledge Hub can be mostly simply described as a replacement for the Communities of Practice platform, but actually it has much more ambitious scope in terms of sharing and distributing knowledge and data. So our intention is that you could [...]
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via readingdetectives.wordpress.com Derbyshire is using both a wordpress blog and a Facebook page to support a reader development programme on literature in your local area. I love seeing mentions of the places I lived and loved in books, so a really cool idea.
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Love Facebook, but hate a bunch of nonsense in your activity stream. Get rid of it without losing friends.
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The Transparency Programme is focused first on helping local authorities to release expenditure data and other required sets by January. Getting the data out there, open, re-usable and done as easily as possible – addressing redaction, licensing and the impacts of releasing expenditure data. It’s also focused on making this data useful to local authorities [...]
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via flickr.com There’s a new case study on the LG Improvement and Development website covering use of social media in Kirklees for tackling obesity and unhealthy lifestyles which focuses on their use of Facebook: Students in an area of West Yorkshire are turning their backs on takeaways and TV to become healthier thanks to an [...]
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I’ve been playing a game called Empire Avenue for a couple of months now. It only went public at the end of July, but I got a beta invite from a Twitter contact in America. I don’t play it very much. But like any slightly addictive game, I probably play it more often and [...]
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via datasf.org San Francisco has a showcase of applications using open data. And I’ve featured London’s before here, too. San Francisco has got lots of interesting and useful apps, including one I’ve been wanting for ages but which there just isn’t the open data for yet. Maybe every city should have one these showcases – [...]
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Links that I found interesting last week, mostly open data and social media engagement stuff. Data and development Reports look at cultural and economic implications of open data – 09 Aug 2010 – Computing no turning back says SOCITM Government and mobile apps | DavePress Should government develop mobile apps? Open Data – Tough Decisions [...]
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I was planning a short break this week. It turned out to be a lot shorter than I expected, given that we managed only one night away. But it was pretty good anyway, even if the castle that we saw was NOT a castle. Since we only had a couple of days we decided to [...]
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Tags: castle, England, fort, Hampshire, hurst castle, New Forest, UK | 1 Comment »
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