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Introducing Commentariat & the POI Taskforce Report
I’ve written before about the perennial problem of publishing documents online for comment. The solutions either seem to be clunky, laborious to setup or use, or problematically inaccessible to users without Javascript. The problem remains, but there’s an extra option … Continue reading
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Tagged comments, consultation, Development, social media, WordPress
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Voices in the crowd
“Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.” Lev … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, clay shirky, comments, community, feedback, joel spolsky, reputation, social media
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Five ways to publish commentable documents online
Imagine the scenario: They Who Must Be Obeyed want feedback on the new report they’re publishing next week. It’s a dozen or so pages long with fairly basic formatting (yes, I do indeed live in a dream world). Let’s assume … Continue reading

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What do you want from me? 7 alternatives to ‘Leave a comment’
Think back to you last digital engagement project outside Facebook. What did you ask people for? Chances are, you asked for a ‘comment’. Maybe a ‘reply’. ‘Feedback’, perhaps. A handful of you might have requested a ‘submission’. That’s not necessarily … Continue reading →