Friday, 29 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-29

SocialEngine PHP – Build your own unique social network! Interesting looking white label social network software. (tags: php socialnetworking network socialsoftware tools community)

Thursday, 28 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-28

10 Ways to Get More Out of Friendfeed Google Blogoscoped post on doing interesting stuff on FriendFeed. Picked this up on Friendfeed itself before checking my RSS. Hmmm. (tags: friendfeed aggregator tips socialnetworking feeds) Don’t call it a wiki: Google…

Wikia release social network feature

You can now make your MediaWiki running wiki have social networking features, too, as reported by Wikia head honcho Jimmy Wales: Today at Wikia we have released our social networking features for MediaWiki under the GNU GPL 2.0. The best…

At last! JotSpot = Google Sites

Finally Google has finished making the JotSpot wiki service their own, and have relaunched it as Google Sites. This is great news, as a wiki solution is something that has been sorely missing from Google’s line-up of services for some…

Wednesday, 27 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-27

Searching for a Mozilla EU Community Marketing Manager « Jane’s Ramblings This looks like a great job…for someone who’s bilingual. (tags: mozilla job facilitator communities) Laura’s Notebook | Technology for Non-profit Organisations, Social Media and Accessible Website Design » Blog…

CoPs in the Telegraph

Simon Dickson pointed me to a post on the Telegraph‘s Three Line Whip blog about the IDeA Communities of Practice platform: These ‘Communities of Practice’ are an attempt, according to their creators, to harness the power of social networking to…

Social Media Big Day Out

I’m the (or rather now, ‘a’, but more on that later) facilitator at an online community of practice for social media and online collaboration using the Communities of Practice platform put together by Steve Dale at the Improvement and Development…

FriendFeeding

FriendFeed is an interesting service, which I was alerted to by Neville Hobson. It enables you to create a ‘lifestream’ – a list of all your interactions with various social networking sites. It create a narrative list of, for example,…

Monday, 25 February, 2008

Social networking in the public sector

Interesting report published by Quocirca on behalf on IBM, on the topic of the opportunities web 2.0 and social media offers the public sector: Social networking can help public sector bodies interact to a far greater extent with citizens as…

Sunday, 24 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-24

Terraminds twitter search Cool Twitter search engine. Better than mine, anyway. (tags: twitter search tools searchengine mashup)

From small acorns…

Just to give heart to anyone out there who is struggling with a blog they’ve just started, I thought I would share something with you all. This was my first effort at a blog and it was terrible. Now, I…

Face in the Stone

Here’s a photo I took whilst we were away in Cornwall last week – it’s almost like it’s alive! I’m about halfway through posting up the best of the 200-odd photos I took – you can find them all here.…

theWikiFinder

I’ve been playing about quite a bit with Google CSE this weekend, firstly seeing how it would work with Twitter (as mentioned here previously), and secondly now with wikis. There is a load of great information out there on the…

Planning workshops

I’m doing some work at the minute putting together the agenda for Tuesday’s socia media shindig in Coventry for members of the IDeA Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice (…and breathe). It can be tricky keeping an eye…

Saturday, 23 February, 2008

WordPress.com widget guide

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that while WordPress.com is probably the best place to start for beginner bloggers, it also isn’t the most customisable of environments. In other words, if you want total control of what your blog looks like, you need…

Find a Tweet

I wondered what would happen if I included every public Twitter profile in a customised Google search. The result was a pretty cool way of finding what people are saying on Twitter on a certain topic. You can have a…

Thursday, 21 February, 2008

links for 2008-02-21

Projects wiki Cool wiki started by Chris Brogan, listing Twitter profiles by interest, location etc. A great way to those new to the service to find folk to follow. (tags: twitter wiki community)

World of Twitter

One of the great things about Twitter is the community that comes with it. Not just the community in terms of the people you follow, and who follow you, but also the network of people working to make Twitter more…

Wednesday, 20 February, 2008

Mozilla Messaging

TechCrunch announces the launch of a new Mozilla (the guys behind open source projects like FireFox, to name one) site called Mozillla Messaging. This site aims to ‘fix’ internet communications, firstly by driving the development of the new version of…