An online notebook
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An online notebook
Circuit Rider 4.0 Conference Round Up Laura’s roundup of the recent circuit riders’ conference. (tags: circuit+riders laura+whitehead) Still a journey for social media Neville Hobson gives some pretty depressing figures on social media usage in the UK. (tags: research socialmedia)…
7 Great Online Image Editing Apps Nice roundup from Mashable (tags: tools online photo editing web free) Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating…
Pleased to see that at last this blog registers something on Google’s toolbar for PageRank – 4/10 which isn’t too bad. Much better than nothing at all, anyway!
Interesting column from John Naughton in today’s Observer on the potential issues of an increased focus on ‘cloud computing’ ie using online services like Google Docs, etc. Firstly he talks about the recent outages in Asia caused by the Pakistani…
NewsFire (for Mac OS X) This Mac RSS reader is now free. Competition for NetNewsWire, possibly? (tags: rss mac software reader)
I’ve written a couple of posts about Google Sites over the last couple of days, and in summary: I really like it. I have spotted a few posts about complaining that this isn’t a service that’s available to those with…
…is the name of the artistic creation that young Master DavePress produced using the graphics tablet just now. He has given it the title ‘Mec Puck Z’. Don’t ask, I didn’t dare. (Warning: it’s a pretty big download!) I am…
On the way home from work last night I bought myself a little treat: It’s a Wacom Bamboo 1 graphics tablet – just the basic model for playing with. One of the things I will start using it for is…
Huzzah! Google Sites has finally been added to my Google Apps account, which means I can start playing. I’ve created a test wiki here, whicha anyone can view, but if you want to have a go at editing it, you’ll…
SocialEngine PHP – Build your own unique social network! Interesting looking white label social network software. (tags: php socialnetworking network socialsoftware tools community)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Terraminds twitter search Cool Twitter search engine. Better than mine, anyway. (tags: twitter search tools searchengine mashup)
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…