Service and MOD staff are also being asked to volunteer to operate social media presences as part of their official duties, to help explain their work to the public.
Author Archives: Rowan Purdy
Ready to surf the Google Wave
Google is promising the launch of a real-time communication platform that ties together the best features of existing communication and collaboration tools within a browser interface.
A wiki for and by the medical community to grow medical knowledge
The Medpedia Project launched last month is a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public.
Research to evaluate knowledge sharing across the NHS
Clinicians, from the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and Academics in the field of Health Informatics, from the University of the West of England, have joined together to evaluate knowledge sharing across the NHS.
Experimentations with Lightbox 2
Lightbox 2 allows you to present images in a slick window, while darkening the rest of the page. It adds a whole lot of design panache to a website, and adds very little to page load times
Social networking and youth participation
The Local Government Information Unit’s Children’s Services Network are running an Action Learning Set between January and June 2009 for local authorities, voluntary sector organisations and the private sector.
Online collaboration tools mindmap
An adaptation of Robin Good’s recently developed “Online Collaboration Tools” mindmap.
Tools to support us to collaboratively build ideas together
A brief look at some of the mind mapping tools available that can help us to collaboratively build ideas together.
National stress awareness day
Did you know that ‘bonfire night’ is also National Stress Awareness Day?
BT venturing into Software as a Service market
British Telecom is seeking to bridge the gap between its customers and 3rd party software / applications vendors by buying into the Software as a Service (SaaS) market.