Friday, 11 January, 2008

Online collaboration does work

Despite now working in further education, I’m still involved in the predominantly local government based Communities of Practice social online collaboration platform, which is developed by the Improvement & Development Agency. For a quick run through of the whys, whats,…

Best British football ground…

…is of course the home of the mighty Reds, at least according to The Guardian: 1) The City Ground, 1935 – present Why on earth Nottingham Forest’s board want to move away from the City Ground is be££££££££££££££££££££££yond m£££££££££y k£££££££££££££££££££££en,…

10 Cool WordPress themes

One of the many reasons why WordPress is such a super publishing platform are the many themes which are freely available to give your site a professional look and feel. 1. Envy – WPDesigner.com Envy is a bold and bright…

A sense of place

The Birmingham Bloggers meet last night went well, with a good turnout and some exceptionally high-quality discussions on a variety of topics. I found myself burning up with jealously a couple of times as people talked about the exciting projects…

FeedDemon 2.6 problem

There’s a bug with FeedDemon 2.6, I think. Whenever I click the little orange RSS icon on the FireFox address bar to subscribe to a new blog, it tries to open a new FeedDemon window. Every. Single. Time. This is…

links for 2008-01-11

Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond – ReadWriteWeb Interesting arguments. (tags: socialmedia web2.0 social collaboration blogging socialnetworking) Bloke finds missus working in brothel | The Register Oh my lord. (tags: brothel shock! horror!)

Thursday, 10 January, 2008

WordPress is taking over

Neville Hobson reports on the new site for BA’s new airline. And guess what? It’s running on WordPress. More and more, public bodies and corporations are moving towards WordPress as a lightweight, flexible and powerful way of establishing a social…

Birmingham Bloggers Get Together

Looking forward to this evening, because Nick Booth has organised a get-together of Birmingham bloggers. OK, so I live in Kettering, but work in Coventry and that’s kind of close. Here’s the Upcoming page for the event. Am looking forward…

Moving links in WordPress

WordPress never fails to astound me with its brilliance. I still haven’t finished putting this blog together properly yet, but today thought I ought to at least cobble together a mini blogroll of some of my favourite fellow bloggers. I’d…

links for 2008-01-10

Allardyce reign ends at Newcastle Absolute madness. (tags: football) Getting started with video Neville Hobson provides some great links and advice for getting video online. Something I am particularly interested in at the moment. (tags: video socialmedia) Oxford Internet Institute…