[Digital-Mentor] ITT and other bits

[Dave Briggs]

Subscribe to comments is now turned on - had it installed but in all the
excitement I forgot to flick the switch - apologies. There's some detail on
how to get involved on the about page:
http://digitalmentor.org/about/including bits about tagging.

Not sure why I haven't been picking up your twitter stuff, MJ, will take a
look into it.

Dave

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> "Michael Grimes" <michaeljgrimes at gmail.com> wrote: [...]
> > It does frustrate me that government departments still don't think of
> > holding meetings outside London (though for the meeting on Wednesday CLG
> are
> > paying expenses for voluntary and community sector organisations (
> > http://tinyurl.com/58xbmv, bottom of page)).
>
> Well done CLG.  Sadly, it still leaves the rest of the third sector
> and the lower levels of the public sector out in the cold.  (Anyone
> got a convincing argument to persuade a parish council why they should
> pay London expenses for that?  I haven't.)
>
> > [...] I am somewhat disappointed and baffled that by taking someone
> else's
> > initiative, opening it up and encouraging other voices, we open ourselves
> to
> > the charge of being exclusive; but that's life I guess.
>
> By expressing a concern, I am not making a charge.  Be reasonable.
>
> > The meeting in Birmingham last week was unofficial, thrown together by a
> few
> > people who wanted to discuss it. That can be done anywhere, by anyone,
> and I
> > for one would encourage it to happen. digitalmentor.org is one place
> where
> > those discussions can be aired, but don't forget there's also CLG's own
> > online discussion
> > forum<http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/77/ShowForum.aspx>
>
> CLG's own online discussion doesn't meet CLG's own accessibility
> policy.  CLG people are aware of the problem and I've had a very nice
> positive response, but no fix date is known.
>
> I've tried to get involved on digitalmentor.org but it's a bit awkward
> to follow with a lack of "push" methods, mobile-phone-unfriendly
> display and CSS errors (or is it valid but confuses phones?). My first
> part of fixing that would be to install subscribe-to-comments but
> davebriggs doesn't seem to be hearing me on identi.ca, twitter or xmpp
> lately - anyone else have plugin-installing access?
>
> Second would probably be some sort of "Get Involved" or "Join" link
> and third fixing the CSS.
>
> Is there a common hashtag for this yet?  #digitalmentor seems in use.
>
> Regards,
> --
> MJ Ray (slef)
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