I pride myself on working *with* people, rather than doing things *for* them; it is the essence of user-led web 2.0 strategy & practice, no? (My twitter today)
For example see Gartner report on social networks and public policy which underlines the importance of this for buidling communities online: “Di Maio warned that if the public [...]
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It’s not rocket science
Improving businesslink.gov.uk
Looking at the businesslink.gov.uk website, and with experience of working on developing the London version in the past, I came up with one positive way to link up the great factual content on the site with the needs of business owners - a live chat facility for the ‘Starting Up’ section. Specifically in this proposal [...]
US Patent and Trademarks Office gets collaborative
Don’t ask, just join the dots together with the following facts. Wonder if it will influence ‘Transforming Government’ in the UK?:
1. Last August the US Patent and Trademarks Office removed Wikipedia (a collaborative product) from its list of acceptable resource sources, which didn’t help Amazon lawyers’ action to protect its 1-Click patent.
2. Now a collaborative [...]
DELL support
My experience of DELL support on Bank Holiday Monday was generally good in that I got through to tech support (an outsourced solution) pretty quickly each time. That said there were a few interesting glitches for those who like reading about this kind of thing:
1. First tech support person said they’d get back to me [...]
Internet Governance Forum
A meeting of the internet’s top brass as well as UK politicians, businessmen, and academics will take place in London at 2pm today - and bloggers have been asked to make their voices heard. .
Bush Recommends Blogs
Bush Recommends Blogs Dropping in on Wheeling, West Virginia yesterday to rally support for the Iraqi War, President Bush also dropped a word that maybe even surprised himself: blogs. The armchair warriors at home whispered among themselves, “did he just say ‘blogs?’”
Data death/data lives
Saw this report in today’s Guardian having just read the Connecting for Health 05/06 business plan. Surely if there’s one thing that would get the medical profession motivated about the benefits of C4H its that in a few years it will as a result (see Financial Times article on Monday) in an unparalleld national dataset [...]
NHS Connecting for Health Response
I was interested to read the NHS Connecting for Health response to the Medix survey of GPs on the progress to date. Perhaps CfH should set up a simple feedback site using Blog/Wiki technology..
Good news for patients
Some good news - the national launch of Patient Opinion took place on 3 January..