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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…
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…
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…
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)
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…
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…
WordPress is the best, we all know this. As well as the amazing free themes that are available, there are also tonnes of plugins which make your blog do interesting and cool stuff that it can’t do out of the…
Is the Social Media News Release necessary? Michael O’Connor Clarke on the social media press release (tags: socialmedia socialmediapressrelease)
WetPaint is a hosted wiki service that I haven’t really used before – I tend to stick with WikiSpaces, though have used pbwiki a fair bit recently for the barcampukgovweb. By the looks of this great video from the Common…
A d c o l o g | Learning Technology in the Yorkshire & Humber ACL community Kevin Wright has started blogging – good man! (tags: blog kevin+wright) St Enodoc’s Church, Trebetherick – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Didn’t get to…
Defining the press release Neville Hobson on the social media release. (tags: socialmediarelease, neville+hobson) Early Editorial (Skitch) | Macgasm Skitch is indeed an excellen little creengrab tool for OSX (tags: skitch mac software) Google Blogger Users Finally Get To Schedule…
The diagram (click it for a readable version) above is one I put together a while ago to try and explain what I think the terms social media and web2.0 actually mean, and how the two relate to one another.…
Mmm. Stupid Americans. Mmmm. [youtube:] Hat tip to Dave Winer.
John Naughton: …the Guardian has a policy of allowing people to post comments anonymously, which IMHO is a good way of encouraging people to behave badly, because they don’t have to take responsibility for their views. I’ve always thought that…
We’re off for a trip next week, to Cornwall for a few days. There may well be some light blogging ahead. Anyway, we are trying to cram in as much stuff as we can, and make the best use of…
CiviCRM CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. (tags: crm opensource drupal cms joomla software management…
Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…
William Shaw is a great writer, and a great guy. He’s written a number of non-fiction titles, mainly on counter-cultural issues and is now doing some exciting stuff with social media, looking into stuff like uses the blog format to…
Jeremiah Owyang posts about a report he has written for Forrester. The executive summary is all we really need: To host a successful community, think of it as you would product development: Start by focusing on objectives, chart a road…
I have been thinking quite a bit recently about what people need to do before they start a blog. I know that one should say that blogging doesn’t necessarily suit everybody, but, to be honest, if there is novel in…