Sunday, 25 February, 2007

Wikispaces

Wikispaces is excellent. I’ve moved the LGNewMedia wiki to there, from a self hosted MediaWiki. Technorati Tags: wikispaces, wiki, lgnewmedia

Wiki move

I’ve moved the LGNM Wiki to Wikispaces, having had a look round the Social Media wiki that David Wilcox runs. All the existing information has been copied across. The system I had been using, MediaWiki, is excellent,a nd I haven’t…

David Wilcox

I’m a regular reader of David Wilcox‘s blog, and if you aren’t at the moment, you should be. His posts are full of great stuff. He’s also the editor of a wiki which is chock-full of useful social media information.…

Saturday, 24 February, 2007

Announcing LGSearch.Gov.uk

I’ve been playing around a little more with Google Coop, and discovered that you can use wildcards when defining the sites you want to search. The way the standard LGSearch works is that I provide Google with a list of…

Thursday, 22 February, 2007

Defining Social Media

This is nice, via Neville Hobson: ‘Social media’ is the term commonly given to websites and online tools which allow users to interact with each other in some way – by sharing information, opinions, knowledge and interests. As the name…

Defining Social Media

This is nice, via Neville Hobson: ‘Social media’ is the term commonly given to websites and online tools which allow users to interact with each other in some way – by sharing information, opinions, knowledge and interests. As the name…

Wednesday, 21 February, 2007

Cost cutting, and welcome home!

Welcome to my wordpress.com blog! I’ve basically decided to cut right down on my web expenditure. Having the vebrig.gs domain was fun, but the renewal was going to cost £35, and the bill for my hosting is due next month…

Monday, 19 February, 2007

Valleywag on Second Life

I’m a Second Life sceptic. Plenty of other people are too, like the author of this Valleywag piece. Interesting stuff in the comments, too. So what accounts for the current press interest in Second Life? I have a few ideas,…

Manchester to be rebuilt…

…in Second Life. The Manchester Evening News reports: MANCHESTER is set to open a virtual version of itself in the internet simulation game Second Life… The aim is to promote the Manchester `brand’ and raise awareness of the city in…

LGNM Podcast #1 – WordPress

Here’s the first LGNewMedia podcast. It’s the first in a short series about some of the great social media and Web2.0 tools that are available. This first one is about WordPress. I hope you enjoy it – please leave a…