Monthly Archives: October 2008

Delib join PEP-NET

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Gez Smith

After finally getting an errant fax machine to work Delib have become the newest member of PEP-NET!

PEP-NET offer an online forum for European-wide e-democracy stakeholders to share ideas, disseminate best practice, and generally learn more about all the different e-participation projects and research that is going on.

Its all very well me describing it, but they do a much better job, so check out http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/

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Ideas Forest and Blog launch

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Gez Smith

As those who keep up with the Team Rubber blog know, we have just launched a very shiny Ideas Forest and Blog for DIUS at http://ideas.iagreview.org.uk/

This marks an exciting step forward for our Ideas Tree platform, by creating a forest of subjects to add ideas to, tied in with a blog to really facilitate deeper discussion of those ideas.

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Who wants to be? – It’s like PB…

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Gez Smith

Thanks to Ed Mitchell for pointing this one out to us, an interesting event that basically works on a Participatory Budgeting model, but as more of a fun evening of games and debates. The idea is that the audience for … Continue reading →

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Just. Use. Youtube.

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Gez Smith

It’s becoming a bit of a mantra round here, but time and again we’re telling clients to use Youtube for their video content, unless they’ve got a genuine reason for not doing (such as wanting to restrict the content to … Continue reading →

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Google gets Opinion Tracker-y on the VP debate

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Gez Smith

There’s an enlightening post on the official Google blog which shares some of the data trends from the search engine during last week’s American vice-presidential debate: candidates, questions and queries. I love this kind of data where people’s intentions are so … Continue reading →

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