The Future of Work

These are my links for April 22nd through April 27th: The Conservative Party | News | Speeches | Adam Afriyie: Government must improve access to data – “The campaign to ‘free our data’ is an important one – all the more so at a time when our economy is in deep recession. UserVoice – Customer Feedback 2.0 – Harness the ideas of your customers. Build great products. Turn customers into champions. – Uservoice communities are the easiest way to turn…

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These are my links for April 7th through April 18th: Buzz – Stuff – Post to Buzz<br /> Help people share stuff from your website in Google Buzz What To Look For When You Hire A Community Manager – FeverBee – The Online Community Guide – Experience aside, most community manager jobs look for the wrong skills. If community building is about bringing a group of people together and developing a community spirit amongst them – then you need to…

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These are my links for March 31st through April 5th: http://crenk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/web-3.0.png – Im sure a lot of you out there have heard the term Web 2.0, but today I wanted to explain Web 3.0. Web 3.0 is a very interesting term that talks about the semantic web. The below image better explains the differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Measuring Social Media with Web Analytics, Part 2 – Search Engine Watch (SEW) – In part one, we…

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These are my links for March 21st through March 25th: Deloitte | Unlocking government – How data transforms democracy 21st Century Councillor | Using Social Media: A Guide for 21st Century Councillors – If you are just thinking about getting online, with a blog or social network account and not sure about how to do it, then check out this guide. Governmentontheweb – Home Page – This site is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of e-government and the impact…

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These are my links for March 5th through March 16th: Local by Social – This document outlines how local authorities can use social media to achieve more for less. It also highlights the risk to councils if they ignore the technological advances of social media and the people using them. sociable* | Archive | All – Examples of Social Media in action across business and government The truth is out there – Audit Commission – This discussion paper looks at how the public sector…

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These are my links for February 28th through March 3rd: web20-21stcentury-tools – home – A great collection of Web2.0 tools, focused on educators, but a valuable resource list for anyone interested in Social Media Collabor8Now! Mail – Inbox (2) – sm1@collabor8now.com – Improving data visualisation for the public sector – Good data visualisation can help users explore and understand the patterns and trends in data, and also communicate that understanding to others to help them make robust decisions based on…

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These are my links for February 18th through February 25th: Personal knowledge management, filtering and information overload – With more than 100 million distinct websites, one trillion unique URLs and an ever-increasing amount of e-mail, people are drowning in information. However, the problem is not information overload but rather filter failure, according to Clay Shirky. In traditional knowledge management the focus has been on quantity, not quality. Organizations have struggled to collect all the knowledge that their workers possess. The…

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These are my links for February 14th through February 17th: Council Monitor – Essential to monitoring and comparing the reputation of all UK councils online Web 2.0 tools and applications: 1100+ Web2 apps listed, annotated – Web 2.0 tools, apps and resources for collaboration, communication, RSS, images, start pages, weblogs, wikis and more. Emphasis is on libraries, librarians and information work. National Knowledge Service Homepage – The mission of the National Knowledge Service, set out in the strategy of NHS…

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These are my links for February 7th through February 12th: Social Media Case Studies | The Parallax View – There’s more and more case studies on social media, web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0. Keeping track of them all is an on-going project. Here’s some of the ones I’ve been looking at lately. This is not meant to be a definitive list, it’s more like a set of bookmarks, but if there’s a really good one I’ve missed out, please add…

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These are my links for February 2nd through February 7th: Communicating Cohesion: Evaluating Local Authority Communication Strategies – About Siri :: Product :: Siri – Your Virtual Personal Assistant – Semantic web application Linked Data | Linked Data – Connect Distributed Data across the Web – Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia…

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