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Twitter in plain english from Common Craft

Common Craft who produce the most fabulous fun bite size mini videos on social networking tools in plain english have released another in their growing series. The latest one is all about Twitter which explains how Twitter can be used in just 2.5 minutes. Check it out at www.commoncraft.com/twitter.

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Posted on March 6th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web, Social Media.
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Visualising information for advocacy: An introduction to information design

I’d highly recommend reading a copy of the new booklet from Tactical Tech which is also available as a pdf download. Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a useful guide aimed at helping organisations strengthen campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact.

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Posted on March 4th, 2008 | Posted in: Participation, Side Notes, On the web, Nptech.
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Web Office 101

London region ICT champ, Miles Maier has created a great visual round up of some of the best web office tools on his blog. He ran a session called ‘Web Office 101′ at the recent Circuit Rider Conference, and shares a wide range of links to web-based office tools which allow you to create, collaborate and share documents through your web browser. Check out the article weboffice 101.

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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web, Social Media, Nptech.
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Article on making videos more accessible on blogs

Problogger guest writer Stephen Hopson helps to champion accessibility in making video posts accessible to the deaf community with a step by step guide to adding subtitles to a video post. Check out the insightful article and the interesting reader comments and conversation at Problogger - How to Make Your Video Posts More Accessible.
If interested in making all your media more inclusive to all, there are lots of useful resources and guides on

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Posted on February 26th, 2008 | Posted in: Participation, Accessibility, Side Notes, On the web, Social Media.
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40 web based online tools for design

The Design Vitality site has a useful list of 40 helpful free web based tools to help you design anything from logo’s, create and edit webpages, includes collaborative online tools, and image editing and more. See the full list at Design Vitalitys’ 40 excellent web based tools.

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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web, Web design, Nptech.
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Politics 2.0 co.uk

Over on the NTEN website there is a great round up of how politicians here in the UK are using social media to reach new audiences. Check out the article at NTEN on politics 2.0 co.uk.

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Posted on February 21st, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web, Social Media.
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21 Days of Wiki Adoption

Stuart Mader who supports organisations, and other sectors to network, collaborate and create new communities with wikis is currently running a series of 21 daily posts with videos on wiki adoption. You can see all articles related to this series at www.ikiw.org/21days. There’s lots of useful tips and ideas to help your organisation get the best from working with wikis.

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Posted on February 12th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, Social Media, Nptech.
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Latest tools from Google

Head over to Beth Dunn’s Small Dots blog, where she updates us on the new version of the Google Apps (a suite of applications such as Gmail, Google Talk, Calendar and Google Docs), which has now been made easier for people to collaborate and use without the technical knowledge needed to get up and running with it all.
Also Beth highlights Rebecca’s recent posting on the Wild Apricot Blog about how Google Forms

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Posted on February 12th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web, Nptech.
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NTEN’s Love Your Techie Day!

NTEN have used Sproutbuilder in an innovative way for you to to send a special message to your favourite techie for their celebratory ‘Love Your Techie Day’ on February 14th. Find out more, and send your special message at the NTEN website today!

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Posted on February 12th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web, Nptech.
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The basics of data portability

Data portability has been big news in the web tech world in recent weeks. If you want to understand more, there’s a great new article and easy to understand video explaining the basics on ReadWriteWeb showing DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix by Smashcut Media.

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Posted on January 15th, 2008 | Posted in: Side Notes, On the web.
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