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…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Sunday, 24 February, 2008
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…
The different types of blog post
Following my beginners’ guide to blogging, I thought it might be nice to expand further on what sort of content you can use on your blog. After all, a blog is just a website, and what you do with the…
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…