Stephen Blyth's Blog

I’ve just looked at the Digital Strategy website and I’m wondering if I’ve missed something. After all the online and off talk, and policy deliberations over the last 8-10 months, I can’t seem to find the strategy in DS 2.0 released on 28 August 2008. Strategy as in…. an elaborate and systematic plan of action [...]

Next Thursday at least 125 people will be gathering to learn and talk about using the web for their not for profit organisation. The Engage Your Community conference is being held at Massey University in Wellington on 4 September. The organising team (pictured above) met on Thursday for a final wrap up. Despite the last [...]

I’ve just received an email from Svetlana who’s helping to set up the UK arm of charity giving website Global Giving. The website concept is simple: visitors “browse ways to help others around the world, pick the ones you are most passionate about, and give to the solution.” To spread the word about the UK [...]

I missed Jim Mora’s show today, but I wish I hadn’t. Paul Reynold was talking about “three online projects [he] thinks exemplify the best of community lead web projects”. The projects he raved expounded on were: One Laptop Per Child – Niue Aotearoa People’s Network – free Internet and help in public libraries, plus open [...]

Bringing up dags around the dinner table is, if not frowned upon, is really rather crass. Especially if you really start exploring the meaning. But when dags came up during a conversation with Nancy White, an online facilitation specialist from Seattle, they were a bridge to cross Pacific understanding. And utter hilarity. It didn’t take [...]

In answer to all the skeptics, the council of Digital Development New Zealand (DDNZ) have made a bold statement for their search results: “it works”. Well, that’s the title to a Google search result for the DDNZ. I’m not sure if this intentional or a hack from a prankster over at Kiwiblog, where skeptics abound. [...]

The Engage your community mini-conference in Hamilton earlier in the year was a great day. About 140 people showed up to learn about and discuss how blogs, social media and other online tools can help community groups. Read my post about the presentation I made at the conference, “Wikispaces workshop notes”). Based on the success [...]

I generally cross to the sunny side of the street when I can. It’s an attitude that I try to cultivate generally, not just during this bleak, long winter. Given the deluge of facts about human impacts on the natural world it’s not always easy. When someone argues convincingly we’ve got a 100 months before [...]