links for 2009-08-31
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
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Articles from August 2009
Bill Powell's Tips for Selling
I’ve been going through an oral history project that I did with my grandfather probably about ten years ago now in order to get it into a good shape to share the document with my cousins and my brother. I came across this bit where I’d asked him his tips for selling. Fairly straightforward… Bill [...]
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How does your garden grow?
As I was developing my gardening chops back in Tennesse, I began to see England as my horticultural mecca. Oh, the cottage gardens, the RHS shows, the gardens at the grand and stately homes of the National Trust. My co-workers and I at a garden center in Knoxville mused over the gentle mild climate and [...]
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links for 2009-08-23
Is social media a fad? « Kathryn Corrick Apparently not, includes great video with various facts and figures (tags: socialmedia commercial stats training.fodder training)
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Visiting friend
Simon’s friend Craig, best man at our wedding, is visiting. This is his second visit since we’ve had Bill. Last summer our boy was quite taken with him, but this year even more so. Their re-introduction on Friday was a moment of shyness on Bill’s part and then excited running around and showing off since. [...]
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Tags: animals, birds, deencityfarm, richmondpark | No Comments »
links for 2009-08-21
Save a Bookmark From Feb 2009, survey reveals a workforce eager for social media to capture and share knowledge content but with few of the tools in place (tags: knowledge.management knowledge socialmedia)
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Linked data, swings and roundabouts
We know that local government needs to have better access to data and needs to use it better. But perhaps key to making this happen is to look to ourselves first and begin to share data and make it accessible within the sector, with partners and most importantly to the public. I’ve met recently with [...]
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links for 2009-08-19
In the End, It’s About What People Want | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere World Bank blog post looking at e-government and transformational change in services, channels and relationships, via http://greatemancipator.com/2009/08/16/developing-e-government/ (tags: service.transformation e-government WorldBank change.management) Social media staff guidelines Dave Briggs thoughts on social media codes of practice [...]
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Trying new old things
Our local pub has had many incarnations. When we first moved to the area it was a neglected outpost of a national chain and called the Freedom and Firkin. As a foreigner, I didn’t quite understand the 70s tv allusion to the sit-com Citizen Smith which was set in the local area. A colleague kept [...]
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Tags: park, playground, pub, Tooting, Wimbledon | 2 Comments »
Trying Flock
I’m checking out Flock again… I’ve never really got the social networking browser to work for me, but maybe it’s time to give it another try. Mainly I’d like to be able to embed photos more quickly and easily into my blog posts Like for example…these photos from my Flickr account, shots I took yesterday [...]
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