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links for 2009-01-31

Digital Britain: who's going to pay? | Technology | guardian.co.uk (tags: uk access broadband) Official Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together (tags: openid openauth sso authentication)

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Edutainment and competition make the world go round

The New York Times published an article today on how utilities turn their customers green. For years and years the Sacramento Municipal Utility District had tried to push people to using less energy by offering for example rebates for energy-saving appliances. However, all tactics seemed to be in vain until they applied a very simple… read full post

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links for 2009-01-30

Economy Pinches the Billable Hour at Law Firms – NYTimes.com (tags: law legal) IT's Dirty Little Secret: No Accountability – Susan Cramm – HarvardBusiness.org (tags: it roi accountability)

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links for 2009-01-29

Public services 2.0: how to implement and promote user-driven, open innovation in public services (tags: events eu government web2.0) When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover Relevant People Within Your Network (tags: ibm discovery socialnetworks enterprise socialsoftware) Pimp My Wiki – CustomWare Asia Pacific – CustomWare Asia Pacific – Integration and Collaboration (tags: wiki themes… read full post

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links for 2009-01-28

BitchBuzz Tech: The Design Whore: Enabled By Design (tags: ebd headshift design) Transparent Office (tags: law legal adoption socialsoftware) IBM sends Blue Clouds back to school • The Register (tags: ibm cloudcomputing cloud saas) SILK: News | Coping families (tags: ethnography anthropology uk poverty socialscience innovation)

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Unblocking the blockers

Controversy over whether time spent on social media sites is wasted or productive is nothing new – anyone who’s been around the block for long enough will remember similar discussions around email rollouts.  And no doubt there will have been the same arguments about putting electric telephones on people’s desks. The problem is often manifested… read full post

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Wikipedia as an inspiration for internal use of wikis

Should organisations using or considering wikis take note as Wikipedia debates a change to their moderation policy?

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The (white) elephant in the room

Politicians and IT usually go together like fish and bicycles.   The story of public-sector IT in the UK is generally one of grandiose over-budget failures at the top end of the scale, and low-level outsourced inadequacies at the other.  The same is also true in the private sector, of course, but the public sector situation… read full post

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links for 2009-01-27

BBC NEWS | Technology | Editorial row engulfs Wikipedia (tags: wiki wikipedia reputation commons) AJAX APIs Playground (tags: api google tools) Connections 2.5 Previews (tags: ibm connections socialsoftware) SSRN-Can We Exploit Collective Intelligence for Collaborative Deliberation? The Case of the Climate Change Collaboratorium by Luca Iandoli, Mark Klein, Giuseppe Zollo (tags: deliberation debate socialmedia socialsoftware)

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links for 2009-01-26

A Guide to Recommender Systems (tags: recommendation) 10 reasons why a law blog does not belong inside your law firm website : Real Lawyers Have Blogs (tags: law legal blogging blawgs) Blogging and Other Social Media by Justin Patten and Deryck Houghton (tags: enterprise books law legal) 20+1 reasons not to launch an Enterprise Social… read full post

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