How comfortable do you feel without a Cell phone? A G.P.S. ? An iPhone/Droid multi function device ? Would you take a trip out of state without a cell phone or G.P.S. ? Some people do. No cell phone and just a AAA map. What if, god forbid, Google went down for two days ?Read… Read more »
I’m increasingly interested in how creative collaborations between small suppliers, public services and organisations from other sectors can come together to solve problems in an open innovation-y sort of way. The digital arena is probably one of the best places for this type of thing to happen, and a useful post has appeared on oneRead… Read more »
Have you ever forgotten to take the garbage or recycling out? Wouldn’t it be nice if someone sent you a reminder the night before, or the morning of? Maybe an email, or an SMS, or even a phone call? Now you can set it up so somebody does. Us. Introducing Recollect: the garbage and recyclingRead… Read more »
A research paper “Business Innovation and the Use of Information and Communications Technology” by Jessica Todhunter and Ruel Abello at the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that innovative companies invest more ICT. But what the analysis can’t show is if using ICT makes the company more innovative, or just that companies invest more to supportRead… Read more »
Just a quick post here to get you all on board with something that I’ve been working on and think will be very cool but at the same time very useful. The Project: SXSW is a massive event taking place in Austin, TX next week. The Interactive portion of the event will bring together tech,Read… Read more »
Yogi Berra said: “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” The same holds true for any community. Mission statements are not new. Yet with online communities popping up, bringing people together from town to town, coast to coast, and country to country, crafting an effective mission statement is moreRead… Read more »
TamiMcEvoy.com Everyone is talking about ‘Open Government’ but what exactly is Open Government? For me, it has to be more than government simply publishing public data, yes, we want to be able to scrutinize the data, and yes we want to see where the tax money is getting spent and yes, we want to knowRead… Read more »
In my previous post about online listening, I mentioned RepKnight, a soon to launch lightweight tool for tracking keywords across social media services. In this guest post, RepKnight’s Lyra McKee talks about getting people’s attention online without irritating them. Social media is like the Internet in 1999; no one’s quite sure how best to useRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Legislative Branch: Fake Online IDs Imperil Social Media’s Effectiveness. Polico reports that some legislators want to give up on Twitter–in part because they can’t tell if the people who are following them are their own constituents. (Could they use something like Tru.ly?) Contapuntally, The Air Force Wants to Manage Fake Personae. There isRead… Read more »
Personally I was very pleased to hear that Walsall Council had decided to do an “experiment” with twitter and tweet for a full 24 hours. But this post is not about that work although you can read more about it here on Dan Slee’s blog and follow it for yourself on twitter with the hashtagRead… Read more »