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• Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 26 October to 28 October Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 26 October to 28 October: 5 Very Simple Ways to Create an Avatar - Some nifty ways of putting the personality into online personal branding wirth cool avatar tools. Tips on Finding Your Blogging Rhythm - A great post on frequency of blogging, the optimal posting level, and whether it matters. CLG, Youth Advisors [...]

  Posted on Oct 28.08 to Balance   

• Blog Action Day: or how I learned to stop being selfish and love the power of porridge I am a selfish person. That’s the main finding from my 59 days thinking about poverty: or rather, thinking about how little I usually think, let alone do, anything about poverty. I dodge the clipboard-wielding out-of-work actors on Victoria Street (and have even told one to fuck off on occasion). I use the clothing collection bags [...]

  Posted on Oct 15.08 to Life   

• Three cheers for the DFID bloggers (or DFID Officials: Unofficial) This is far from breaking news, but I am way too impressed by the DFID bloggers to let it pass by unblogged. If you haven’t already, go check them out and add them to your reader. Things I love about this group blog include… it’s a proper group blog: individual reports that fascinate on their own but [...]

  Posted on Oct 11.08 to Work   

• Dave’s top tens: social media tips for beginners Dave Briggs is dishing out yet more real gems of social media know-how. Don’t miss them. 10 Social Media Steps - a walkthrough to take new users of social media from joining their first social network profile to fully fledged immersion in the social web phenomenon. Promises to be good. 10 different ways to post to your [...]

  Posted on Oct 04.08 to Life, Work   

• How to be an interesting civil service blogger (and not get fired) Starting up your own personal blog is dead easy. Unless you’re a civil servant and want to talk about your work. If you are, then you face this choice: play it safe and say nothing interesting ever, or do some homework to learn where the boundaries lie. As ‘Mr Newest Blogging Civil Servant UK’, I’ve been [...]

  Posted on Aug 31.08 to Work   

• Blog action day Via Dave Briggs and Tom Watson, I’ve stumbledupon blog action day 2008. Thanks guys, now I’ll have to think of something to think about poverty. In only 59 days. Suggestions welcome! (I think it’s a bad thing, generally). Here’s a video. Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.

  Posted on Aug 17.08 to Balance, Life, Work