"The Crowd-Sourcing of Intelligent-Design"

Great twitter based viral campaign from Skittles - brave stuff! (via Laura Whitehead)

“…few of the comments really engage with the piece they are supposedly commenting on. Instead, most commentators just engage with each other, often with a viciousness that takes your breath away. There is a kind of circularity to the threads, with similar arguments repeated time and time again and rebutted as often.” (via Cassie Robinson)

"The charity, voluntary and public sectors offer a good work/life balance, competitive salaries and benefits."

Explaining Dave Snowden

"There’s far more to it than creating a page and loading it up with council content I’m afraid - but the rewards for doing it properly will include reaching and engaging with parts of the community that traditional council communications struggle to reach."

"Globalisation has brought many benefits in terms of price & availability of goods & services, foreign exchange etc.. It has also brought costs in terms of lengthened supply chains, job offshoring, compromised food security, exposure to global economic turmoil etc.. A certain amount of re-localisation can act as a buffer to protect a community from the adverse effects of globalisation while still enabling them to reap the benefits from it."

"An effective community outreach strategy for a local government might involve a Ning network"

via Cassie Robinson

As it says.

5 twitter apps connecting the people with the power (via Alberto Nardelli)

"In collaboration with the RSA Fellowship there will be a series of 3 breakfast get2gethers, all focusing on aspects of the human emotions and relations our connectivity is dependent upon."