Social Media in Plain English
Another excellent video from Lee leFever over at Common Craft. This one explains Social Media in plain English.
Steve Dale online
Learning and sharing using Web 2.0 tools and techniques
Equality and diversity monitoring - should we be concerned?
I wonder what it is about Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), Non-Government Organisations (NGO’s) and other Quangos that somehow feel compelled to monitor and report on socio-demographic data that is not part of their brief?
I encountered this first hand when I was contracted by LSC and DIUS last year to set up the Information Authority. This [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Social Search and Discovery
I attended (and presented at) the Butler Group “Information Management and Collaboration” event that was held in London on 14-15 May. Regrettably I couldn’t get to the first day of the event, so missed presentations on topics such as:
Document collaboration using Sharepoint, and
Next generation collaboration through BEA Systems portals
Hence, I was left to ponder how [...]
Plain English Campaign releases Drivel Defence
The Plain English Campaign has just released a JavaScript-based application called Drivel Defence.
The authors of the application allege that it will help authors assess their writing for Plain English as part of a general effort to improve accessibility. The idea is that you cut and paste your ‘drivel’ from a Word document or web [...]
New links for Communities and Networks 2008-05-04 @ del.icio.us
Tools for Communities Wiki A companion piece to a forthcoming book Stewarding Technologies for Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith. It collects knowledge about how Communities of Practice use different tools. Like all Wikis, this is a work in progress. It collects knowledge about how Communities of [...]
Charted growth of communities of practice in local government
I thought I would try out Google Gadgets as a way of showing the growth in usage of the IDeA CoP platform. It was simpler to set up than I imagined. A straight forward process of adding the data to a Google Spreadsheet, inserting the Gadget to the spreasheet, and then selecting the option [...]
Yellow, Pink and Green
Something light to start the day. Unfortunately this has a ring of truth!
Mujibar was trying to get a job in India .
The Personnel Manager said, ‘Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one. Unless you pass it you cannot qualify for this job.’
Mujibar said, ‘I am ready.’
The manager said, ‘Make a sentence using the [...]
