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Forces encouraged to blog, tweet and engage online

August 6th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

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.

Tags: Armed forces
Categories: communications , government , social networking

Counselling Directory

July 1st, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

Counselling Directory is an online web directory listing counsellors and psychotherapists all over the UK.

Looking forward to doc expose in snow leopard

June 12th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

At Apple’s WWDC in San Francisco, Craig Federighi demos the Snow Leopard version of the Mac os ansd reveals some new time saving features.

Tags: workflow efficiency
Categories: Mac

Ready to surf the Google Wave

June 4th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

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.

Tags: Google
Categories: collaboration , open source , social software , web services

A wiki for and by the medical community to grow medical knowledge

March 6th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

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.

Tags: Medpedia
Categories: knowledge sharing

Research to evaluate knowledge sharing across the NHS

March 4th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

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.

Tags: Health informatics , NHS
Categories: knowledge sharing

Experimentations with Lightbox 2

February 28th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

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

Tags: Lightbox 2
Categories: design , innovation , user experience

Visualisation techniques

February 11th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

Visualising the tags and categories from our blog using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D.

Tags: Flash
Categories: visualisation

Social networking and youth participation

January 5th, 2009 by Rowan Purdy

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.