Monthly Archives: November 2008

Bookmarks for November 24th through November 27th

These are my links for November 24th through November 27th: The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 Communities: Trends & Technologies – 1. The Web is becoming more and more social. 2. The Web is becoming more and … Continue reading

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software

Gartner has just published its latest ‘Magic Quadrant’ report for Social Software. If nothing else, it gives you a list of all the key vendors in this space, though you may personally disagree with where they are placed in the … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for November 19th through November 24th

These are my links for November 19th through November 24th: BarCamp / BarcampUKGovweb09 – If you think you've got something to contribute to improving how government organisations use the web, then this event is for you. There's a Google Group … Continue reading

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Utilising Web 2.0 in Local Government

Web 2.0 is opening up new opportunities for local and central government to provide more citizen-centric services using cost effective technologies. Innovation in the private sector is making Web 2.0 tools easier to use and cheaper to deploy. Social networking … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for November 16th through November 17th

These are my links for November 16th through November 17th: GoingOn Home – GoingOn provides the most comprehensive ondemand solution for building interactive web communities. We are dedicated to helping our customers to transform their web presence from a static … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for November 13th through November 14th

These are my links for November 13th through November 14th: YouTube – Podcasting in Plain English – CommonCraft Intro to Podcasting in Plain English YouTube – Video: RSS in Plain English – CommonCarft Intro to RSS in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch? … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for November 9th through November 12th

These are my links for November 9th through November 12th: The TALK Project – TALK – TALK is a wiki for the public sector in the UK and beyond. It started out as a Communities and Local Government project to … Continue reading

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Local government communities of practice shorlisted for awards

The Improvement and Development Agency’s (IDeA) Communities of Practice for Local Government (CoPs) has been shortlisted for two awards at the e-Government National Awards 2008, this years ‘best of the best’ in public sector ICT and  e-government. The winners will … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for November 5th through November 9th

These are my links for November 5th through November 9th: InternetNews Realtime IT News – Better Social Networking From… Intel? – In his demo, Otellini showed a prototype social networking system that could help a new employee get oriented in … Continue reading

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Communities of Practice initiatives in the public sector

I thought I would post a couple of examples of how communities of practice (CoPs) are becoming increasingly mainstream in developing policy and seeding innovation in the public sector – an area of work I continue to support through my … Continue reading

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