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Strategising digital engagement
Do you need a digital engagement strategy to get it right? Perhaps you don’t, but it can’t not help, surely. Start with a vision. What do we want to achieve? Where do we want to end up? Pick an...

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Our regressive web
Ryan Holiday writes in Our Regressive Web: We’re regressing because we’re so focused on the new that we forgot the importance of the old. The tech press is too busy chattering about other “...

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The joy of plain text
These days, I write pretty much everything in plain text. This is driven by two main things: Annoyance Paranoia How I write pretty much anything of any length (blog posts, reports, proposals,...

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Top Posts March 2013
These three were our most popular recent posts in March: Hello Europe: A Fresh Idea to Connect Europe 2013 Event and Conference Radar What Is Participatory Budgeting? The overall top scorers remain...

Intellitics Blog

‘WalkUP Wake-Up Call’ report a model for walkability
We know there’s a demand for walkable communities, but what about the evidence that the demand warrants a supply/investment? Cities have been undergoing a renaissance in the past ten years, and...

Cooltown Studios

Here’s something new for you, dear readers
As always, I am trying to be helpful. No, really! I am. So, here’s a new thing. Every so often I will answer some questions put to me by visitors to this blog. All you have to do is ask a...

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Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: A new intranet for DCLG (with more big savings) Mobile = inclusive, but not inclusion TEACAKE: How to run your own brewcamp In which I put my faith in...

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Discourse Team Releases Guidelines for Civilized Discourse Online
The team over at Discourse, a software project aimed at re-inventing the online forum (see here), recently did an analysis of community guidelines for about 50 different online forums, bulletin board...

Intellitics Blog

Open or closed – does anything online ever last?
It’s only now, a couple of weeks after the announcement, that I feel I can talk about the demise of Google Reader. Up til now, the whole thing has just been too upsetting. Reader is the site I turn...

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Public service messages with a smile
I’ve been a bit serious lately on the blog. Sorry. Here’s a bit of whimsy to lighten the mood. Worcestershire County Council have produced this video to inform the public about what they...

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