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Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks)

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor, and the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code. And, if you're not a programmer yourself, you can request a scraper or ask the ScraperWiki team to write one for you.

Open Data Commons is the home of a set of legal 'tools' to help you provide and use open data.

Google data visualisation tool - works only with CSV or KML files

A neat way of getting user feedback.

I know Charles Armstrong - a great guy (he has spoken about social networks at a KIN event). Trampoline's Sonar SNA tool looks excellent

National Archives instructions for transferring data, information and knowledge resulting from 'Machinery of Government' changes. Updated this year, the document unfortunately makes no mention of how Linked Data might help in the complex business of moving ownership of information. There is reference to XML schema guidance from 2008 from the National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/electronicrecords/advice/default.htm Whilst it implies that tacit knowledge transfer is important, there is no guidance or tools for this and relies on codification rather than knowledge sharing.

Where can I find a list of airports with their locations? Where can I find historical weather data? How do I find the county from a postcode or a state from a zipcode? How do I find a book title from its ISBN? What's the best tool(s) for scraping data from websites? Is there a way to get RDF Linked Data in a format that you can use?

A useful link/resource for Knowledge Hub (to be added to the MindMap)

The Jive Apps SDK beta provides a library of resources for creating and publishing Jive Apps. These resources include the APIs used to access information, the tooling to create, upload, and manage your apps, and the infrastructure provided by the Apps Market. The following table presents the high-level concepts in the SDK. Once you're familiar with these concepts, you can jump right in and build your first app by following the Jive Apps Basics Tutorial.

A key tool in the online delivery armoury of the Local Government Group (www.local.gov.uk), the Knowledge Hub is about sharing and working together, enabling the millions of people across the Public Sector to collaborate to provide better services and to engage with the recipients of those services

Today, there are so many more social tools for use both inside and outside enterprises. This stream of presentations highlights the "social enterprise" and how the sharing of knowledge is being handled in more social and productive ways. Moderated By: Art Murray, CEO - Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc.

Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities.

Don't know if this only works with WordPress, but could be useful for adding tags to posts migrated from CoP and for suggesting new ones

GovMetric enables you to listen to the Voice of the Customer across all contact channels, to prioritise which areas to improve and to measure improvements through near real-time reporting. Click on the sector tabs on the right to find out more. If you have access to YouTube you can see how one of our customers, East Herts Council, has made 18% efficiency savings using GovMetric

Data mashup application

Turn your spreadsheet into a map 1 - Upload your spreadsheet 2 - Get an interactive online map in seconds

Turn your data into a map

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JackBe® delivers enterprise mashup software that empowers organizations with the right information at the right time for the right situation. Our innovative enterprise mashup platform, Presto®, creates new insights and understanding by rapidly and securely combining previously unconnected information in new ways without the complexities, costs and risks of traditional information integration projects.

Check out Fujitsu example - good intro to Social Networking