Beth Kanter has been in touch to ask me to spread the word about an American competition which this year is open to applicants from the UK. The Digital Media in Learning Competition has a deadline of October 15th and allows bids from $30,000 to $250,000.
The 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition theme is Participatory [...]

Free Debates is an important democratic movement. They are demanding that a condition of a network getting to screen presidential debates is that they make the material available with open source/creative commons licensing, so it can be rehashed and mashed etc.

It is a great idea and any public sector broadcaster like channel 4, ITV, BBC  [...]

If you want to people on side and working together, less is always more.

Tom Steinberg knows that. He runs MySociety, the very successful charity which punches above it weight using the internet to help people collaborate to improve civil society.  Among tips on how to build websites for social good he includes this one:

Take [...]

Thanks to a lot of work from Jon Bounds, new visuals from Citrus Frog  and some input from myself,  the Birmingham Conservation Trust has a new website.

You may not be surprised to know that it is built entirely on Wordpress. Please have a look around and let me know what’s right/wrong etc. The aim is [...]

Why did I enjoy last night’s bloggers’ meet (ask me about the apostrophe) more than any other?  It was partly because we did more than sit in a pub, partly because we did sit in pub and partly because new people came. However I think it was principally because the bloggers meetings are increasingly ripe [...]

Of All the People in All the World at the A. E. Harris Factory, Birmingham – Times Online
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I’ve long been interested in the positive power of gossip to strengthen networks and share social mores.  The report “Communications: some lessons from the New Deal for Communities programme” concludes that:
The development of positive word of mouth networks provides a strong
base of awareness and a means of identifying and addressing problems.
Word of mouth communication between [...]

This month’s meet. 

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