Sunday, 27 January, 2008

Build your own search engine

This is a presentation I created  a while ago explaining just how easy it is to create a personalised search engine with Google CSE. I have had a few people ask me how this is done recently, so I thought…

Creative Connectivity Slides

I spoke last week at Creative Connectivity, a conference being organised by the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Support Centre, which is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee – on the subject of the risks and opportunities presented by Web…

Seesmic

Lloyd Davies gave a great introduction to Seesmic as one of his sessions at the barcamp, and I was chuffed when he let me have an invite to the service. Now, I have done nothing with video on the web,…

Thursday, 24 January, 2008

links for 2008-01-24

blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: new features Create your own limited reddit network. Cool! (tags: reddit social bookmarks news digg communities folksonomy)

Thursday, 17 January, 2008

links for 2008-01-17

When someone is trying to make conversation, it’s rude to ignore them Ross Ferguson on DIUS’ attempts at effective online consultation. (tags: DIUS consultation ross+ferguson) Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion; Open Source Is A Legitimate Business Model Massive…

Wednesday, 16 January, 2008

links for 2008-01-16

Using Social Media To Create Social Media Training – Social Media Training “This site explores social media training and provides a resource for those looking to evangelize social media in their organizations.” (tags: socialmedia wiki training web2.0) Fleet Street PR:…

Tuesday, 15 January, 2008

Twitterific

Twitter is becoming an indispensable tool for me – albeit one I didn’t know I needed until I started using it in a big way. I guess that as with a lot of these social networking type utilities, Metcalfe’s law…

Podcasts

I like podcasts. I certainly hope the current developments in streamed video don’t mean the death of downloadable audio and video in the near future. Here’s the list of ones I am currently subscribed to and listen on a regular…

Councillor 2.0

Just popped up on the Gallomanor blog – Cllr 2.0: The Ministry of Justice Innovations Fund II approved a bid from Gallomanor and Norfolk County Council to help set this record straight.  We’re filming a group of six Norfolk County…

I’m a bipolar blogger

Writing for a blog is like writing for any other form, you have highs and lows in terms of producing content. What’s important is that you remain consistent in the numbers and length of posts that you produce. People are…

FeedDemon 2.6.0.21

I was alerted by Neville Hobson‘s tweet that a bug fix release of FeedDemon was available for download. This announcement came through the FD support forums, which I never look at, so am thankful to Neville for bringing it to…

links for 2008-01-15

Tips on microphones and related podcast questions : NevilleHobson.com Podcasting tips from Neville Hobson. Very useful! (tags: podcasting, neville+hobson) Next Neville Hobson’s new tech blog. Worth a subscription, folks! (tags: neville+hobson blog wordpress) Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote Speech Leaked…

Monday, 14 January, 2008

Cluetrain on slides

Thanks to Lee Hopkins for pointing this out, it’s Doc Searls’ slideshow version of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Excellent quick reading. [slideshare 28722 cluetrain-28722]

Public Sector Social Media Meet

Members of the Community of Practice for Social Media and Online Collaboration are meeting up at the Learning and Skills Council National Office in Coventry on 26th February 2008 between 10am and 3.30pm for a day of Web 2.0 fun…

10 Great Firefox extensions

I love FireFox, because not only is it faster and more secure than Internet Explorer, it’s also a lot more powerful, especially when you consider the many extensions you can use to add functionality. Here’s a list of some of…