Link Love
Posted on 26th August 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for August 25th through August 26th:
- Open data, democracy and public sector reform – This is an online report based on an MSc Dissertation by Tim Davies submitted to the University of Oxford, July 2010. It is shared using the Digress.it platform which allows for paragraph level commenting and hyperlinking to elements of the document.
- Alchemist dreams | El Pinchen – “how can a person who is doing things outside of the immediate understanding of many, survive and make a living. Make no mistake, this is not some bullshit from an artist in his ivory tower bemoaning the big bad world that doesn’t understand him. This is a new investigation from the person who has launched a thousand “social media” careers. (more…)
Posted on 26th August 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: linklove, open data
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Posted on 21st August 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for August 4th through August 19th:
- Read+Comment | Hassle-free publishing and commenting on your documents – Good for consultation…. ‘Commentable’ online documents are a great way to establish two-way dialogue with the people who care about your organisation. But until now, you’ve had to build them yourself, often from scratch, either hosting your own or working around the limitations of your content management system or free tools.Read+Comment is purpose-built on modern, open source WordPress technology with all the configuration and plugins set up for you. Sign up, put your content in, and make the site your own.
- Brave New World | John Popham’s Random Musings – A very fine man is now freelance: “There is a big difference between the last time I was a freelance and now, That is the rise of Social Media.”
- Can hyperlinks be libellous, or are they just mere footnotes? | Law | guardian.co.uk – Interesting…. “The case of Hird v Wood, decided more than a century ago, is often cited by legal commentators as applicable by analogy (more…)
Posted on 21st August 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: bigsociety, Birmingham, blogging, consultation, Health, libel, linklove, Local Government, socialmediasurgery, software, steph, websites
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Posted on 19th August 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for June 19th through August 4th:
Posted on 19th August 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: archaeology, bctblog, bevocal1, data, ethics, heritage, linklove, mobile, newoptimists, nhs, open, open data, public, services, warwickshire
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Posted on 19th June 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for June 10th through June 19th:
- Neighbourhoods Learning Together — BVSC – Course available for community activists in North Birmingham and Sandwell: “30 places are available and we want to the group to reflect the diversity of the area. If there are barriers or support needs which are making you hesitate, then let us know and we’ll see what we can do. The venues for the sessions will be wheel chair accessible.”
- Telford & Wrekin CVS-news from the Development Team » Blog Archive » Telford & Wrekin CVS BASIS Project – “The whole purpose of which is to recruit, support and train 50 local voluntary and community organisations, in the art of social media, so that they can implement it, to ultimately support group sustainability”
- Swimming pool data scraping: comparing opening times | Where can we swim? – “Birmingham City Council’s leisure centre website isn’t an easy place to look for information, harder still to try to take data, but that’s just what I’ve spent some considerable time trying to do….” Our own Andrew Brightwell continues his one man campaign to scrutinise availability of swimming pools.
- The power of conversations « Francesca Elston – “…conversations make people happier and more useful.”
- Pentagon hunts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in bid to gag website | Media | The Guardian – The Daily Beast, a US news reporting and opinion website, reported that Pentagon investigators are trying to track down Julian Assange – an Australian citizen who moves frequently between countries – after the arrest of a US soldier last week who is alleged to have given the whistleblower website a classified video of American troops killing civilians in Baghdad.
- Cutswatch | Society | guardian.co.uk – Public services face the harshest cuts in decades. We want to know what’s happening in your area
- Futurebuilders — loan business scrapped, new direction will be grants for neighbourhood organisations « The BSSEC blog – “Civil Society Media website reports that Nick Hurd, the civil society minister, has confirmed that Futurebuilders — New Labour’s flagship loans-plus-support model for investing in third sector development, managed by the Social Investment Business — is “effectively closed for business”. In future the £200m fund will be dedicated to providing grants to stimulate the formation of neighbourhood-based organisations, a clear change of direction under the coalition’s new ‘big society’ policies.
The Office for Civil Society (the replacement for the Office of the Third Sector) has also confirmed that Capacitybuilders and the youth volunteering organisation v — both major New Labour initiatives — are “under review”.”
Posted on 19th June 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: bctblog, bigsociety, capacitybuilders, conversation, cuts, futurebuilders, Government, linklove, scrutiny, swimming, Transparency, wikileaks
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Posted on 25th May 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for March 9th through May 21st:
- Why its essential to socialize your business philosophy – “If you can’t or refuse to adapt your business philosophy to realize the full potential of social media, you will be wondering why your socialized competitors are doing increasingly more business than you are.”
- Home is where the Art is: How to do social media – “Whatever you do with digital media, it is just that – digital media. The important stuff is the conversations it supports. No conversation, no point to digital media” This is from a customer and makes me very proud!
- Talk About Local 2010 – What we learnt – Blog - – Much to our surprise, Greener Leith won the ‘Best Specialist Hyperlocal’ award, for which we’re most grateful. We’re still laughing at the plastic umbrella (price tag unremoved), tiny plastic trophy and the camouflage hat that made up the prize
- Nick Petrie | One year of Redbrick – The student media scene is a great place for experimentation because the business model is different. It is an environment where risk should be encouraged and entrepreneurship supported. Social media is the buzz topic at the moment, but it is the concepts that surround it that matter; relationships, community engagement and conversations – the interactions that publications have with their audience.
- 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Empowered Communities Topic Report – Corporate – Communities and Local Government – “Using 2008-09 Citizenship Survey data, this report provides an in-depth examination of community empowerment: whether people feel they can influence local and national decisions; whether they would like to be more involved in decision making; what would make it easier to influence decision making; and how people would influence decisions if they wanted to.”
- future interviews « ‘i interview interesting people’ – Interesting journalistic process from Robert Dale
- Design for America – Sunlight Labs is pleased to announce our latest contest — “Design for America.” This 10 week long design and data visualization extravaganza is focused on connecting the talents of art and design communities throughout the country to the wealth of government data now available through bulk data access and APIs, and to help nurture the field of information visualization. Our goal is simple and straightforward — to make government data more accessible and comprehensible to the American public.
Posted on 25th May 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: AMSU, bevocal1, change, data, empowerment, gov2.0, greenerleith, hyperlocal, Journalism, Leeds, linklove, petrie, Podnosh, redbrick, studentunions
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Posted on 9th March 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for March 7th through March 9th:
Posted on 9th March 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: bosf, Facebook, Government, land, linklove, maps, procurement, sndwell, socialmedia, socialnetworking, statistics, stats, trends, wxwm
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Posted on 2nd March 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for March 1st through March 2nd:
Posted on 2nd March 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: architecture, bctblog, cib, citizen, citizenjournalism, civil society, environment, Government, Leadership, linklove, ncvo, thirdsector, uk
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Posted on 1st March 2010 by Nick Booth
These are my links for February 24th through March 1st:
- GSA Dialogue App Demo – "From establishing any kind of web presence at all, through increasing understanding of the nuances of online interaction to pioneering a technological innovation; whether it's a case of expanding the uptake of proven methods or better joining up online activity with the 'real world' process, how can government organisations more effectively connect people with governance and decision-making online? We want your ideas, suggestions and comments – as front-line staff or as citizens."
- Telegraph invents comparative degrees of atheism. Dawkins = “athiest” | Online Journalism Blog – "The vitriol is being generated because volunteer moderators who have invested hundreds of hours building an online community, and the members of that community, have had their community summarily yanked from beneath them, and had their means of communicating with each other turned off. "
- VentnorBlog Denied Access to Coroner’s Court | Isle of Wight News:Ventnor Blog – We were told by the coroner’s officer, Richard Leedham, that the coroner, John Matthews, didn’t recognise us as a member of the press (despite VB publishing articles for four and a half years and NUJ membership for longer) and he didn’t want us in “his court.”
- Unlocking the potential of mass localism | Left Foot Forward – government’s impulse is to identify what works locally and try to ‘scale-up’ the approach to other communities.
This, we argue, is the wrong approach as it undermines the ownership and applicability that makes local solutions effective in the first place. Rather than stretching particular solutions, mass localism means supporting mass innovation.
- Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back – OpenGeoData – The problem of community at Open Street Map: "Everyone in OSM has basically been contributing for the kinds of extended periods of time as above, not the minutes or hours. Many see someone contributing so little as wrong or pointless. I say just the opposite. The people who spend minutes or hours disappear because we just don't welcome them."
Posted on 1st March 2010 by Nick Booth
Tags: atheism, community, consultation, conversation, courts, Delib, hyperlocal, linklove, localism, map, Mappa Mercia, Neighbourhoods, opem, Richard Dawkins, street
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