links for 2008-09-06
By Dominic Campbell • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Useful links-
Great to see the growth in non-London events
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Download podcasts and transcripts from Accessibility 2.0
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"Poor training and security fears are stopping teachers from using YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook in the classroom, says a survey on web 2.0 technologies"
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Here in the context of PR, but listening is just simply a good thing ok (and then acting on what you've heard of course).
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I like
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"NLGN Director Chris Leslie calls on Ministers and senior public service managers to shift away from old-style civil service models and departmental hierarchies that are “outmoded and incapable of meeting new challenges”."
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"It does seem to me that social networking in a corporate environment makes so much sense that it in fact scares poeple to accept that it is a critical business tool."
I believe would could learn so much, just by dipping our toes in and piloting some tools. I believe that by connecting people in this kind of way, innovation, ideas and progress happens faster and more fluid.
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Books to help you make money online
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"They've been so busy getting 'down with the kids' they seem have forgotten about making the site accessible to disabled users."
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Now that's what I call funny (via Neil McIntosh)
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The management philosophy of Jim Buckmaster (via Adriana Lukas)
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"It will help people who want to get fit by giving them meaningful places to run to and by connecting them with good causes in their area. One focus for the pilot project is to develop a supplementary visit and delivery service for elderly immobile people. In this case runners are paired with elderly immobile people in their area and visit them on a weekly basis providing a useful extra item such as a newspaper and some regular human contact." (via IvoIvo)
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More than one-half of adults surveyed in 17 countries do not know what social networking is, according to Synovate. Not that surprising I guess but interesting nevertheless (via Derek Baird)
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Um wow. Wiki-assistive equipment.
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Nationwide charity doing some great work in bespoke assisstive equipment
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Spot on support for the enabled by design idea!
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Good stuff but why isn't there an opportunity to submit other websites? 'Contact they work for you' is a rather old skool way of doing things don't you think?
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I just knocked up something that fetched data using the TheyWorkForYou API in a few minutes of spare (personal) time I had - all I could add would be something that automatically sent an email, and that doesn’t really sound like much fun to write.
Email might be “old skool”, but it still seems to work pretty well, and it seems appropriate for something low traffic like this.
Sorry Matthew - a failing of mine is to move too quickly from praise into criticism
It is seriously great what you’ve done, and yes I agree email is it, but really I was asking perhaps a user generated process rather than top down process of input from MySociety would be a inclusive and light weight process to administer? But perhaps I’m making a mountain out of a molehill apologies.
Keep up the good work!