A social media game without an evening lost laminating
[Summary: Using Moo.com to make workshop resources] (This post is mainly for those who have spent far too long laminating little bits of card late at night in preparation for a workshop the next day…)...
View ArticleSharing learning from the Plings project…
[Summary: I’m going to be blogging for the Plings project – exploring new ways of collecting and sharing positive activity information for young people] The Plings project has been one to watch for a...
View ArticleNYA Youth Issues News as RSS
I like to try and keep up to date with the latest news about goings on in the Youth sector. I’ve got a dashboard page in my NetVibes homepage devoted to the latest information on youth issues and...
View ArticleExplaining Twitter in one page…
I’ve been trying to create a general purpose one page guide to Twitter for a while. I’ve made two attempts in the past for particular situations – although with the end of SMS based access to Twitter...
View ArticleVoicebox – making the most of engagement
The process is depressingly familiar. Someone asks you to fill in a survey for research or consultation. They take away your results – and – in the rare cases where you ever hear of the...
View ArticleLegacies of social reporting: an IGF09 example
[Summary: aggregating content from the Internet Governance Forum & exploring ways to develop the legacy of social reporting at events…] Introducing social reporting to an event can bring many...
View ArticleYoung Rewired State at Oxfam
Update: Postponed – we weren’t quite quick off the blocks enough to recruit young people to take part in an Oxfam hack-day during the main Youth Rewired State week: so the Oxfam YRS has been...
View ArticleJoined Up Philanthropy data standards: seeking simplicity, and depth
[Summary: technical notes on work in progress for the Open Philanthropy data standard] I’m currently working on sketching out a alpha version of a data standard for the Open Philanthropy project(soon...
View ArticleOCDS – Notes on a standard
Today sees the launch of the first release of the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS). The standard, as I’ve written before, brings together concrete guidance on the kinds of documents and data that...
View ArticleFollowing the money: preliminary remarks on IATI Traceability
[Summary: Exploring the social and technical dynamics of aid traceability: let’s learn what we can from distributed ledgers, without thinking that all the solutions are to be found in the blockchain.]...
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