A bumper backlog of 2010 bookmarks
Without noticing, it seems I haven’t published a list of my bookmarks here for nearly a year. That’ll be partly down to subconscious choice (I’m not overly keen on link dumps on other blogs) and partly through neglect (I prefer to manually edit rather than automate these kind of posts, and haven’t found the time).
This post ought to more than make up for it though! Below is a mammoth dump of my choicier Delicious* bookmarks from Feb 2010 to date, loosely categorised for your scanning pleasure.
I’m not sure whether to resurrect these kind of semi-automated bookmark posts in future or not, and would welcome feedback on whether you find them useful, irritating or neither.
[*With speculation rife that Delicious could disappear, I've recently switched to using Pinboard. You might want to do the same.]
Inspiration:
- 25 brilliant examples of Facebook brand pages
- Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design
- BBC sounds death-knell for left-hand nav
- BBC Online – putting quality first
- BBC tests new homepage
- New BBC site search
- FCO: Evaluating our blogs
- The National Autistic Society
- The 10 best museum websites
- Lincolnshire County Council
- Experimenting with the online presentation of a Bill
- A Trend of Multi Column Mega Drop-down Menus with 30 examples
- JISC Digital Media knowledge hub
Stats/analysis:
- An Exploration of Retweets and Replies
- How Much Big Brands Spend on Search Ads
- Social media stats for the UK
- The State Of The Internet
- OpenOffice is the new David Hasselhoff
- Gapminder.org – For a fact based world view
- The UK technology startup map: finding the clusters
- The Latest Global Social Media Trends May Surprise You
Interesting reads for digital professionals:
- 28 reasons why website management is brutal
- These are your users… read and be horrified
- Nobody Knows What You’re Talking About
- 5 Ways to Express Yourself More Clearly Online
- Why pay for Sitecore when you can get Umbraco for free?
- Why Boxed CMSs Can Suck
- The tyranny of content management systems
- Top 10 Most Usable Content Management Systems
- Stop letting people use your CMS
- HOW TO: Deal With Negative Feedback in Social Media
- 3 Places to Discover New and Relevant Content
- Engaging using LinkedIn
- Learning about content strategy
Think pieces:
- The innovation delusion
- The BBC’s misguided approach to social media
- Where next for digital engagement?
- Everything’s going to be alright
Tools, tips and other useful stuff:
- Loop11 – Usability & User Experience Testing Tool
- Usability testing with UK users. Affordable and fast – whatusersdo.com -
- The introvert’s guide to speaking
- Manage Who You Follow On Twitter Easily with ManageTwitter
- thumbalizr – thumb your webpages
- Real Time Search – Social Mention
- TALKI – The easiest way to embed a forum
- Jive – Enterprise Communication & Collaboration Software
- Follow live conversations from Twitter and Facebook on Tinker.com
- surchur – The Dashboard to Right Now
- Tool-up NGO-style – 20 web-based tools for daily working
- Bit.ly Pro Makes it Dead Simple to Create Your Own URL Shortener
- Delib’s Dialogue App
- Typekit web fonts
- Teamly • Get the right work done
- Pownum | there’s power in numbers
- Brand Visibility Metrics – HowSociable
- Pipl – People Search
- Brandwatch | Social Media Monitoring Company | Tracking & Management
- Boardreader – Forum Search Engine
- Forum Discussion Search with BoardTracker.com
- Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites
- Fluther embeddable Q&A
- The Hello Bar | A little web toolbar that gets noticed
- Screencast.com, online video sharing
- Survs – Online Survey Tool, Collaborative Web Survey Software
- Make a Print Friendly Version of any WebPage, save Webpages as a PDF
- Screenr – Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way
- Dimdim: Easy, Open and Affordable Web Conferencing and Webinars
- Newspaper Club | Helping people to make their own newspapers
- Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test – Browsershots
- BridgeURL – Shorten multiple URLs into a single URL
- Generate a QR code for your website in seconds with bit.ly
- Heatmap visualization for clicks, scrolling, and the fold
- Flickr Slideshow – create flickr photo slideshows for your website or blog
- Keynote Wireframe Toolkit – Get your Keynote Kung-Fu on
- Tagxedo – Tag Cloud with Styles
- GROU.PS :: connects obsessively! Create your own social network
- SocialGO – Create Social Networks, Build Social Networking Sites
- Elgg – Open Source Social Networking Platform
- MindQuilt | Ask Tag Send Answer
- Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning
- Quality Control—A WordPress Theme for issue logging/support ticketing
Gov-specific links:
- The Five Best Government Blogs and The Six Reasons Why They Work
- Delib – OpenGov: the movie
- Leadership 2.0
- Open Government Ideas Look All the Same: Are You Surprised?
- Speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future
- Political hacktivists turn to web attacks
- Fulfilment for Government Marketing Campaigns | Business Link
- A digital engagement framework adapted for local government
- UK launches data.gov.uk (and how Australia could top it)
- Whitehall reorganisation ‘cost £780m in four years’
- BBC – dot.Rory: The £105m website
- Bloggers to be granted lobby access
- Social Media Surgery Plus
- Apps.Gov
- Challenge.gov : The central platform for crowdsourcing US Government challenges
- The Central Marketplace for Challenges | ChallengePost – As used by challenge.gov
- Safe and effective social media use by government agencies
- My MP iPhone application
BIS digital in the news:
People:
- The Stage / Tricycle’s Women, Power and Politics season – That’s my wife, that is.
- What Edward Venning did next – my ex-boss from CLG is now well ensconced in the fabulous Southbank Centre.
- Doing more with less: Viva la frugalista! – my colleague Jenny Poole’s guest blog for Huddle.
Just for fun:
Image credit: Lego dumptruck by bucklava
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Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
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