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Green Grin-o-meter: Are you healthy? And happy? And green?
Wednesday, 13. October 2010 - 17:58

On Monday, at Torfaen Sustainability Week, the new economics foundation launched the Green Grin-o-meter. It's a site for young people, showing them how they can be happy and healthy without destroying the Earth. We're very excited to have been working alongside nef to design and build the site.  

Children, Happy Planet Index, HomeMade Digital, nef, Sustainability
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Social media failures
Wednesday, 6. October 2010 - 18:58

"The so-called failures of social media to deliver are misplaced; rather they are the result of our own failure to commit – to sustain an online presence for more than a fleeting, one-night stand."

(via Steve Bridger)

social media
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Drupal / Microsoft - Thoughts On Microsoft And Open Source
Wednesday, 7. April 2010 - 18:41

As our project with Microsoft comes to a conclusion, it seems like a good time to take stock of what we've learnt and what the corporate giant itself might take away from the experience. For my part, I've definitely seen things from a slightly different perspective in this case study, and had a chance to play with some tools and technologies that I probably would never have bothered to pick up otherwise.

dango, drupal, microsoft, open source
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Drupal / Microsoft - Dashboard Nirvana
Wednesday, 7. April 2010 - 10:00

As previously mentioned we have been doing some work on a Microsoft sponsored case study to look at how well different parts of their technology can integrate with Drupal, and as a side benefit produce some tools that will be of use to charities and NGOs. The project has been somewhat irreverently dubbed project Dango, as in "Drupal And NGOs" (but also a tasty looking form of Japanese dumpling - Mori, can you bring us some back?) and it has been progressing at speed over the last few weeks.

dango, drupal, microsoft
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Open is the way forward
Monday, 22. March 2010 - 14:19

Gordon Brown today announced a bold plan to seek full digital inclusion across the UK, extend access to non-personal data in a bid to embrace the future of the web and save truck-loads of cash by making government more open and effective. Obviously this is not simply because he wants his shares in Virgin Media to increase in value, nor because he is keen to try any and all ways to slash the massive national debt. It is also because it is time to re-think the way voters, service users and the providers of the service interact.

Gordon Brown, open data, public services, rdf, semantic web, UK government
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