Demos Website
Just Use it!
Our new website is designed for transparency and discussion. Let us know if you have technical difficulties, questions about new features, new ideas and suggestions.
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Oh so social
Since we launched our website almost a year ago, attention paid to social networking and social software has increased dramatically. That means Demos employees, too, are increasingly using a number of existing tools out there for fun and work. Check out our MySpace profile, our Flickr photos (also seen on most project pages) our del.icio.us tags, our very own wiki
Technorati Profile continue reading on 1st June 2007 - Show and Tell Web 2.0 A cultural anthropologist from Kansas on Web 2.0 and how the machine is us/ing us. It's nice Friday morning inspiration! continue reading on 30th March 2007
- Get Flocked! Just a quick heads-up for the mighty flock . Billed as the "social web browser", it has all the regular firefox features plus - the ability to stream photos from your friend's flickr pages, directly through the top of the page- a photo and blog uploader that enables you to upload photos and entries directly from your browser- a cut and paste bar at the bottom of the page for interesting tit bits you might find- there's also a very handy rss feed thing, which I haven't quite got the... continue reading on 31st October 2006
- Best think tank website? I just want to thank my mum... It's not everyday geeks (I speak for myself) and wonks take over The Savile Club in Mayfair. But last night, champagne was flowing for the annual Prospect Magazine think tank of the year awards. To use a word from my home country, I was very 'psyched' to take home the best think tank website award for Demos. Our friends at social software consultancy Headshift have worked with us to build a site that puts participation, transparency and engagement theories into practice. We just launched... continue reading on 21st September 2006 Comments (3)
- The artist formerly known as our audience We've worked with Headshift over the last year to develop a number of ways to let our 'audience' participate in our work. I called this engaging the 'artist formerly known as our audience' and today I noted (a little belatedly) that Jay Rosen has referred to 'people formerly known as the audience' in his recent post on PressThink. continue reading on 12th July 2006 Comments (1)
- Web 2.0 and democracy 'Web 2.0' isn't just about citizen media. Is it a new way for companies to sell to consumers? An opportunity for consumers to take control of the corporate communications channel? A metaphor for a new kind of democratic social interaction? A tool that allows well-networked elites to increase their networking capabilities? All of the above?We're hosting an event with a visiting US social software consultant Elizabeth Albrycht, Livio Hughes from Headshift and Tom Steinberg from mySociety. Come... continue reading on 26th April 2006
- New linkages or same old networking (but faster)? It is estimated that over 90% of Koreans in their 20s have a 'minihompy' -- a mini homepage where you create your online self. As with MySpace or Friendster, you have different tiers of friends and you can link up to others with your interests.But it is much more like an online avatar than a myspace profile. According to people I spoke with while in Korea, they must have a minihompy if they want to participate in the kinds of university social relationships they traditionally only engaged in... continue reading on 19th April 2006
- Demos website: not just a facelift What do you get when you combine everyday democracy and web-based technology? Blogs? Wikipedia? Del.icio.us? Well, yes, but you also get Demos + Headshift.We?re putting our money where our mouth is ? and our theory where our website is ? and re-building the Demos site to fit our democratic values. Don?t ask me what it will look like yet, but we?re kicking off the process by working with Headshift, an internet development company that feels as passionately as we do about giving people the... continue reading on 13th September 2005 Trackbacks (1)
