Monday, 10 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-10

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Zuckerberg interview: What went wrong Great analysis by Jeff Jarvis (tags: facebook journalism) Data centres | Cool it! | Economist.com The Economist on the ecological issues around cloud computing, ie big data centres! (tags: economist…

Next Gen KM

Knowledge management is something that really interests me, and it’s something that I think governmental organisations at all levels in the UK need to start seriously addressing. Of course, being a social media fanboy too means that I like to…

John Naughton on Flickr

From his column in Sunday’s Observer: Flickr’s designers also displayed a shrewd grasp of the essence of Web 2.0 thinking – namely that the big rewards come from making it easy for other developers to hook into your stuff. So…

Dead tree web 2.0 reading list

There are a number of books out there which are covering a lot of the stuff I am interested in with regard to the web and collaboration. It might be worth coming up with a reading list – how about…

The culture of collaboration

Steve Dale writes about the need for organisations to consider the cultural as well as the technological issues around collaboration and communication using the web” An excellent posting from Shawn over at Anecdote about fostering a collaboration culture. A good…

Prologue+Wiki=collaboration

I wondered last week about the ways we can use online tools to collaborate on projects – I had on my mind the etoolkit that David Wilcox (and now Beth Kanter, Emma Mulqueeny, Alex Stobart, Nancy White and Steve Dale…)…

Friday, 7 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-07

kstoolkit » KS Methods Nancy White’s list of knowledge management tools. Great resources, and part of an excellent wiki (tags: km knowledge+management wiki resource tools) Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Open Tool Kits for Social Media Trainers…

Developing an open toolkit

David Wilcox and I had a meetup earlier this week, where we talked about the different ways that organisations need to be approached in terms of how they might make use of social media and web 2.0 stuff – or…

Thursday, 6 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-06

BBC NEWS | School blanks out faces of pupils A child protection group has criticised a primary school in Essex for blurring the faces of pupils on its website. (tags: online risk children identity) Extension:SocialProfile – MediaWiki Build social networking…

Working together

I really like the idea of using the web to bring people together and work on problems out in the open, rather like David Wilcox and Simon Berry did in their bid for the Innovation Exchange project. They used Drupal,…

Wednesday, 5 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-05

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress | Performancing.com A liberal definition of ‘unique’ but useful nonetheless. (tags: advice blog blogging communications wordpress) Why should leaders blog? Brilliant stuff from Nick Booth (tags: blogging leaders podnosh) Show# 72: Big Ideas, Small…

TwitterNotes

TwitterNotes lets you post yourself notes using Twitter, just by prefixing the note with a ‘+’. Dead easy, and great from a mobile phone. There is even a mechanism for making private notes, and tagging them using the hashtags convention.

Tuesday, 4 March, 2008

links for 2008-03-04

building a better BLOG Better Blog is a bloggers’ community built on the lovely Ning. (tags: blogging blogs collaboration communication community howto network ning)

BuddyPress

This looks very exciting. Thanks to Nick for the tip off. Edit: More via TechCrunch: It is easy to dismiss this as completely unnecessary given the abundance of social networks already out there, as well as application development platforms like…

I promise…

…not to write another blog post about blogging for a while. I do need another area of obsession though. Wikis? Social networks? Any other suggestions?

It’s Not Just the Blog

As part of some notes I have been putting together for getting started with blogging, I’ve written about some of the other services that it might be a good idea to register with, in addition to your blog: No blog…