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Talking points for digital inclusion: do you have some?

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<>Digital Engagement Manifesto (first draft)<object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=feedback-090428095143-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=digital-engagement-manifesto-first-draft-1357327"/><param name="allowFul</>... more

Coming to London soon: the giant AidPod

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<>I’ve been meaning for a couple of weeks to provide an update on the great news that Coca Cola have agreed to trials of the Colalife AidPods in their distribution system in Tanzania. I wrote earlier about Simon Berry’s campaign … and his front-line visits to distribution plants to see what might w</>... more

Martha Lane Fox to be digital champion

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Computer Weekly is reporting that Martha Lane Fox is to be the digital champion.<><><>The founder of Lastminute.com was unveiled to a small audience including senior civil servants, representatives from the UK Digital Task Force and charities Age Concern and Help The Aged, at a meeting in central Londo</></></>... more

Localgovcamp enlightens cultivating the digital garden

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<>Last Saturday’s Localgovcamp in Birmingham provided me with a blindingly-obvious insight. If we want to use social media to improve public services and local democracy, build social capital, and tackle every other known social ill, innovatively (of course) in the face of spending cuts (inevitably</>... more

Social by Social book launched. And content is free.

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<>We had a terrific launch of the Social by Social Handbook - previously trailed here - at the Reboot Britain event earlier this week. I’m only just catching up on all the connections made, and will post something more thoughtful later.Meanwhile the content of the book about how to use Social Techn</>... more

Twittermobbing Trafalgar Square for Colalife

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<>If you are in central London this afternoon with a little time to spare, I suggest … no, urge you …. to pop along to Trafalgar Square and support the amazing Colalife campaign, which I’ve written about before. Simon Berry, family,  and many, many friends are organising a Twittermob rally to celeb</>... more

Ruralnet ceases trading

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Ruralnet|uk has been one of the most innovative nonprofit organisations I’ve worked with over the past 10 years or so, but that’s no proof against the recession, and they have just announced they will cease trading this week.<><>The Staff and Trustees put considerable effort into securing new funding</></>... more

Revisiting local online communities, 15 years on

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been concentrating on an issue that first engaged me with things Internet some 15 years ago - how to use the Net in local communities, and how to help those pioneering this work to share experience.<>My Social by Social book collaborator Amy Sample Ward and I have been </>... more