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Tag: tech
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I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Tools for ideation and problem solving: Part 1
- 21st Century public service – is it a thing? « @Podnosh
- Autodesk 123D Design – free 3D printing design software
- Data, information, knowledge and power – exploring Open Knowledge’s new core purpose – from @timdavies
- All Things IC | How to write an internal communication strategy
- Code Red_: the rescue of healthcare.gov by a small team of volunteer techies
- A Brief Guide To Selecting A Community Platform
- Mixing the unconference format into a traditional conference – @lloyddavis
- Pico: No more passwords!
- Dancing Giants: Can big companies still innovate? | PandoDaily
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- Google+: author attribution & embedded posts
- Clay Christensen @RSAInnovate: Why the spreadsheet is killing job creation
- What public consultation can look like | Postbureaucrat – good stuff from @lesteph
- Outline has a big first customer and a bigger goal: Making open government user-friendly | PandoDaily
- Google’s strategy to take over computing continues: Chrome apps “For your desktop”
- Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth – good stuff!
- Reflections on UX Camp London (#uxcl13) | @sharonodea
- Checklist for an ideal digital policy engagement campaign | Stephen Hale
- Berg’s CEO on the experience of connected devices & avoiding the creep factor
- Inside the SparkTruck, a mobile makerspace for kids
- Anecdote: 7 practical business storytelling tips
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I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Not a geek – Matt Gemmell
- Technology vs. Democracy from @jjn1
- Textal – A free smartphone app for text analysis
- Structure and Harmony With Innovation Tools via @wazokuhq
- Some Mooc points (specifically related to adult learning) from @petecaldwell
- Understanding Douglas Engelbart by @jjn1
- A PTLLS microteach on copyright for the classroom by @louisebrown
- Social Business Can Transform Public Services
- A creative and sustainable approach to volunteering? | Pete Caldwell
- Michael Birch’s Bebo prequel – a tech startup story actually worth reading. No, really.
Bookmarks for April 25th through April 30th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- More plugins for securing your WordPress install – Useful guide for making WP a bit more impregnable.
- Introducing the Hybrid Organisation –
- Hacking UK Politics with IBM Middleware: open data, mashups, and uh… WebSphere – Cool looking mashup by guys at IBM described by James Governor
- CIOs Brainstorm About Government 2.0: Good Ideas But Not Bold Enough – "So, why do government people insist to “build something” with web 2.0 rather than realizing that in most cases people self-organize and select the channel they want to use or the community they want to belong to? Why do they focus so much on “citizens” and so little on “employees”?"
- Government Online | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project – Interesting statistics from the US on general e-government stuff.
- W3 Total Cache – "The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. "
- Social on the Outside needs Social Business on the Inside :: Blog :: Headshift – "The focus of my talk was the idea that hanging shiny social media baubles on the cold, hard external walls of a corporate organisation runs the risk of creating a false brand promise unless this work has strong internal underpinnings in the form of social business structures that can do something about the noise, insights and feedback that outbound communications generate."
- Web 2.0 training materials – A fantastic resource from the Scottish Government Library Services. Great material, and a wonderful example of sharing.
- CASE STUDY: How Walsall museum is cooler than Ben Stiller – More great work and great blogging from Dan Slee and Walsall Council.
- WW2History.com – Launching 4th May, 2010 – "A multimedia resource on the most devastating conflict in history, brought to you by award winning historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees."
You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.
You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.
Bookmarks for April 11th through April 16th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- A New Approach to Printing – “a service that enables any application (web, desktop, or mobile) on any device to print to any printer.”
- Governments and Citizens: You Don’t Own Your Tweets – This is a really interesting piece on ownership of online content.
- Beauty is the new must-have feature – “I’m predicting that we’ll start to have a non-functional requirement around making beautiful experiences when we build systems, and that we’ll be rubbish at it when it happens.”
- Follow Finder by Google – “Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.”
- Enterprise 2.0 and improved business performance – “Despite growing evidence, which I’ve presented here and elsewhere, there still remains for many people a real question about the overall ability of social software to improve how organizations get things done.”
- calibre – E-book management – Really handy (for a Kindle owner, anyway) open source, cross platform ebook conversion tool.
- Why does government struggle with innovation? – “If innovation is becoming a core attribute required by government organisations, merely to keep up with the rate of change in society and the development of new ways to deliver services and fulfil public needs, perhaps we need to rewrite some of the rulebook, sacrificing part of our desire for stability in return for greater change.”
- The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation – “There are many candidates for the biggest obstacle to innovation. You could try lack of management support, no employee initiative, not enough good ideas, too many good ideas but no follow-through just for starters. My nominee for The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation is: Inertia”
- Lichfield District Council – Open Election Data Project Case Study – “An early adopter Lichfield District Council has been actively sharing a range of local data for some time. In March 2010 the Council was the first authority to make its local election results openly available as part of the Open Election Data Project.”
- Google Docs Gets More Realtime; Adds Google Drawings To The Mix – Me likey!
- YouTube – SearchStories’s Channel – Make your own Google search story video – like in the Superbowl ad. Cute.
You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.
You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.
Bookmarks for March 21st through March 29th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- Would Anyone Ever Say that Open Government Isn’t Great? – "Let’s not demonize good old e-government and let’s not overhype open government or government 2.0. Because what they have both in common is the willingness to help government become better."
- Bristol City Council – blogging our web presence development work – "Us folks here at Bristol City Council have decided that as we continue to develop our web presence, in support of our wider business objectives, it’d make sense if we listened to the collective wisdom of our local digital community."
- 3 principles of innovative organisations – 100% Open – "As if we needed reminding, this exponential increase in connectivity and information sharing is fundamentally changing the way organisations operate and innovate."
- Posting information online could preempt FOIA requests (3/18/10) — GovExec.com – "Taking advantage of technology and preemptively posting frequently requested information online could help agencies address new Freedom of Information Act queries and tackle backlogs"
- The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators – "I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world."
- How Not To Tender For e-Consultation Software | Delib Blog – "This is an issue that’s vexed us for some years here, but having just seen the most ridiculous tender process we’ve ever come across, we really have to say something for the good of all. After all, if we ignore history, we are bound to repeat it."
- Coding Horror: The Opposite of Fitts’ Law – "If we should make UI elements we want users to click on large, and ideally place them at corners or edges for maximum clickability — what should we do with UI elements we don't want users to click on? Like, say, the "delete all my work" button?"
- Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers – A Phd dissertation on blogging in the workplace. Not read it yet.
- my_$publicservice.org – "What really matters in the end is that we listen, and having listened respond and improve."
- Gordon Brown and Tim Berners Lee: Back to the Future? – "The result may be for the UK to remain stuck into its ambition to be seen as a leader in e-government (and now government 2.0) without ever really making it."
- Public Sector Transformation Summit by Michele Ide-Smith – Great post with an awesome embedded slidedeck.
You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.
You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.
Bookmarks for March 13th through March 15th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- HR in the 21st Century – Collection of very interesting posts and thoughts on HR in the age of Enterprise 2.0
- Opinion Space – "The U.S. Department of State is interested in your perspectives and input on a series of important foreign policy questions. "Opinion Space" is a new discussion forum designed to engage participants from around the world."
- Nextgov – Federal technology news, best practices, and web 2.0 tools – Looks an interesting resource.
- When It Comes to Open Government, Nobody is Perfect – "The journey toward transparency, participation and openness is not one in which government should travel alone."
- 100% Open – Interesting looking new body to emerge out of NESTA – will be watching this!
- Under construction: behind the scenes of a government website (soft) launch – Great post from Neil on the soft launch of a new site for BIS – which will save money and hopefully be adaptable to any changes ahead.
- WordPress › Use Google Libraries – This looks very clever indeed.
- Forrester Blogs – Forrester's blog network has had a bit of a makeover – loads of good stuff in here.
- Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Apps – Useful list of the better additional apps you can get from the Google Apps marketplace.
- ShiftSpace – "ShiftSpace is an open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web."
You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious. There is also even more stuff on my shared Google Reader page.
You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.