Fascinating material on curation, bookmarking etc. Not just discussion, but practical nuts & bolts stuff too

an extension of openstreetmap – for wheelchair users – in terms of accessibility

Community Capacity and Coproduction Resources: a new library of resources containing important reports and research

"Currently in beta mode, the site will “enable patients, doctors, nurses and others to exchange and use information in an unlimited number of healthcare applications”, said the company. King said the portal allows patients and others access to the information essential to construct and manage a personal healthcare plan. “At a later stage, the downloading of information to smartphones and other devices will be possible for patients as they develop knowledge and interest in their personal healthcare plan and condition,” he said."

"This toolkit outlines a powerful and effective way of improving patients’ experience of services, and helps you assess how it can help you meet your aims."

"Lots of things are designed to support and enhance independent living. Some work fantastically well and others don’t. At bespoken you can share information about the good, the bad and the ugly. You can also get involved to drive innovation and design the future"

"Our Master of Design programme takes students on a journey of discovery, helping to define and develop design skills to position them to make an impact on the world. Students learn how to 'see the bigger picture' and how design thinking can be applied to design projects and areas outside the traditional domain of design. By reflecting on their own practice and the work of others, students locate or reposition their existing design practice and chart out a journey towards their future career. "

"I was invited by Stuart Bailey of the Product Design Engineering course at The Glasgow School of Art, to aid in the design and running of an afternoon workshop with service users.The 4th year students are embarking on a project with NHS Moray, looking at the telecare products supplied to elderly people living on their own. Stuart is keen for the PDE course to begin encouraging more user-centered thinking, and to begin introducing elements of Service Design into the practice of the students."

excerpts from GSA Product Design student portfolios/projects 2010

excerpted projects from GSA student portfolios 2011

"yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams. Create your diagrams manually or import your external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button."

"Over the past few weeks we've been developing ideas, commenting and voting on suggestions over here for Our Society as a network, and also Our Society on the ground – thanks everyone who contributed so creatively. Here's my previous post summarising the process.With the help of Drew Mackie, who specialises in network mapping, I've now developed a graphical display of how the ideas can be clustered. It is slightly arbitrary, because I drew the lines connecting the ideas, and the software followed through (under Drew's direction). They could have been mapped another way – and if you want to have a go the free software is here, and I have attached the datafile below, together with outputs saved as pdfs."

"This training introduces the concept of building personal networks, which is a foundation for helping individuals become cognizant about how the relationships they develop through their work in various communities is also building a potentially lifelong network"

"I’m often asked at parties what individuals must do to engage in personal co-creation. It recently dawned on me that I only knew how to describe co-creation from the organization’s standpoint, producing quizzical looks from my relatives and friends who are not in the business world. After all, it is a lot easier for a consultant to generate fees from a large organization hiring you to make more money, than it is to sell co-creation one individual at a time. So let me pick up the gauntlet, try my best incarnation of Wayne Dyer or Steven Covey, and tell you how to get on the road to co-creation in six easy steps."

"Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes "

"To help you get to grips with service design, we've talked to the experts, read the academic papers and compiled a set of case studies of some well designed services.This users' guide to service design contains lots of information about how we at the Design Council are demonstrating that design can improve our public and consumer services. But it also contains great examples from design agencies, universities and businesses and public services who've used design."

Scotland's digital media company is teaming up with IRISS (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services) and HackSocial, to bring the organisations together with leading developers in areas such as marketing, IT and social media.

clickable map of Scotland's archives, libraries & museums, tagged with simple accessibility markers

an overview of a project sponsored by the SGHD's Mental Health Collaborative, undertaken by students at the GSA. A lovely example!