Interesting and comprehensive knowledgebase of open source and social media tools for campaigning and communication from the Tactical Technology Collective
Mark O'Neill: "Complexity adds risk. If I have just a single rock then my risks are limited, the rock basically sits there. I could lose it or drop it or trip over it or break it but that’s about it. If I have two rocks then not only have I now doubled the number of those risks but I gain new ones as well - one of the rocks could fall off the other for example or I could lose one rock behind the other."
Jeremy Gould: "What do I mean by embed? I mean investing in self-hosted applications and tools to allow officials to use social media tools in a corporate environment."
Free Our Data: "The website ononemap.com, which has been featured here on a number of occasions - first for getting the list of telephone masts, and then for getting Environment Agency data about flood risks for England, Scotland and Wales - is shutting down."
Richard Allen, Power of Information Task Force: "This is our draft recommendation for local councils wanting to follow a Power of Information approach"
Steph Gray, Social Media Manager at the UK Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills - among other identities. Writing here about the practical side of helping a government organisation use social media to have more interesting conversations with colleagues, stakeholders and the public and the tools to do it with.