These are my links for May 18th through May 27th:
- Welcome to the Local e-Government Standards Body – The Local e-Government Standards Body (LeGSB) was re-launched at the NWeGG Annual Conference on 7 November 2006. Established to support the needs of Local Authorities and the Transformational Government agenda, LeGSB is embarking on a journey to facilitate the take up of standards, which can then be mapped onto a Local Government standards architecture reference model and developed with the local government community.
- YouTube – Twitter Search in Plain English – Learn how to use hashtags to track real-time conversations
- Home – Common Tag – Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets.
- Welcome to Kulu Valley Ltd – Kulu Valley provide smart and cost effective solutions to organisations to advance their communications using technology.<br />
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We combine our Guru™ product suite and carefully selected 3rd party products with a fully managed service that gives organisations the storytelling tools they need to capture visual & textual content and associated supporting material that can be made available to both internal and external audiences. The ability to self publish in minutes, keeps people connected and informed in an immediate, consistent and cost effective way.
- Enterprise Mashup Software – JackBe® delivers enterprise mashup software that empowers organizations with the right information at the right time for the right situation. Our innovative enterprise mashup platform, Presto®, creates new insights and understanding by rapidly and securely combining previously unconnected information in new ways without the complexities, costs and risks of traditional information integration projects.
These are my links for May 4th through May 14th:
- Facebook Finally Calls Meeting on Privacy Strategy « Black Web 2.0 – I guess when you have over 400 million users you can afford to be arrogant – as Facebook is clearly demonstrating. Yes, there has been a flurry of news about people closing their accounts, but this represents a fraction of a percent of the total user base. I think the whole privacy thing is lost on the majority of users, not helped by the unnecessarily complex settings on Facebook. However, continued bad press like this – warranted or not – is not doing the company any good. That other company that 'does no evil' must be loving every minute of this!
- Social Media Classroom – Welcome to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory. It’s all free, as in both “freedom of speech” and “almost totally free beer.” We invite you to build on what we’ve started to create more free value. The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools.
- Page2RSS – Create an RSS feed for any web page – Useful app for creating an RSS feed for pages that don't have an RSS subscribe options
- Lovd By Less — Open Source Social Network — Who loves you, baby? – New social networks launch everyday, most start with the same basic features. Bloggers have wordpress, mephisto and other open source solutions. Lovd offers a free open source social network platform.
- CoTweet Guide Twitter Business | The Social Media Guide – CoTweet is a powerful Twitter client that takes Twitter management to a whole new level. CoTweet focuses on businesses who use Twitter as well as power users with multiple accounts.
The presentation looks at the phenomenon of Communities of Practice and how they can develop into effective knowledge sharing environments. Topics include:
What is a ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP)?
Moving from conversations to collaboration
Community culture and behaviours
What makes a successful community?
Measuring success and the elusive ROI
Lessons learnt from deployment of CoPs in local government.
My thanks to Jesus Matinez Marin and the organising committee for inviting me to address the Congreso Internacional EDO 2010 Conference in Barcelona (12-14 May). I only hope that I didn’t cause too many problems for the Spanish and Catalan translators who gave a real-time audio translation to the audience. I am particularly honoured to have been included in the official book “Nuevas estrategias formativas para las organizaciones“, which (relying on Google Translate) means “New training strategies for organizations”.
The presentation I gave is available on Slideshare and embedded below.
I very much appreciate the hospitality shown to me during my stay in Barcelona and look forward to continued collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya Department de Justicia as they develop their knowledge management strategy.
The presentation I gave looks at the phenomenon of Communities of Practice in the public sector and how they can develop into effective knowledge sharing and learning environments. Topics I covered included:
- What is a ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP)?
- Moving from conversations to collaboration
- Community culture and behaviours
- What makes a successful community?
- Measuring success and the elusive ROI
- Lessons learnt from deployment of CoPs in UK local government.
These are my links for April 28th through May 3rd:
- ManageTwitter – Fast & Easy Unfollowing – * Clean up and manage who you follow.<br />
* Find out who isn't following you back.<br />
* Find out which inactive accounts you follow.<br />
* Easily search inside your Twitter stream.
- Couch potatoes to get active with Google TV? – The days of sitting zombie-like in front of our TV screens may be coming to an end. Google TV will integrate social media with traditional broadcast TV, enabling viewers to interact in real-time with what they see. The possibilities are endless – not only being able to instantly critique what we are seeing, or sharing our opinions with friends, but maybe even influencing the storylines of our favourite soaps?
- Welcome : Warwickshire Open Data – Despite the fact that it has been available for the last week or so the WCC open data site has now been officially launched by an official WCC announcement involving a pun, described officially as “awful”. Now things are properly kicked off we will be taking a number of steps to grow the site and [...]
- Social Media Glossary | The Social Media Guide –
- Access to Gov data – where the US leads, the UK will follow? – Americans are turning in large numbers to government websites to access information and services. Fully 82% of internet users (representing 61% of all American adults) looked for information or completed a transaction on a government website in the twelve months preceding this survey. Some of the specific government website activities in which Americans take part include:<br />
48% of internet users have looked for information about a public policy or issue online with their local, state or federal government.<br />
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So will we be seeing the same sort of appetite for (Gov/Local Gov) data consumption in the UK? I believe so, and – better late than never – the \'Make Public Data Public\' initiative and access to public data afforded by data.gov.uk will I\'m sure drive similar interest and citizen take-up. The momentum is starting to build, and we\'re seeing the birth of 21st century government, which is going to be a lot more transparent than it\'s discredited 20th century version.
