Virtual Communities

Right, the virtual community is now live, kinda. You can find it at http://virtualcommunities.eu. Be warned: it isn’t pretty. But prettiness can come later. So, the point of this site is to create a community platform using different social media services. The point being that I already have a blog, and a flickr account, so … Keep reading

Creating Communities

Warning: mildly incoherent rambling ahead… I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to what the best way of creating online communities are. This is partly Simon Dickson’s fault. Back in March, Simon wrote, in a post titled “Because you can’t do bettr than Flickr”: I’ve just started work with a local community group keen … Keep reading

Free as in Beer

Thought it might be worth a quick plug of another little blog I write, called Free as in Beer. All I do is post a link and a quick description of a zero-cost bit of software. Why not have a look – you might find something useful there! Tags: free+as+in+beer

VodPod

VodPod is a really cool way of collecting and republishing video. The way it works is this: you create a pod, which is a library of video you have chosen as being particularly good, and then add to it using a bookmark in your browser. Easy. The videos can be hosted on YouTube, Google, blip.tv… anywhere! … Keep reading