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Great video of Lee Hopkins pouring forth his spot-on views on how social media can be used within corporate communications. Everything he says can be applied to inter-organisation communication and collaboration too. [youtube bYrcY2Wc17o]

Yet another classic from the CommonCraft Show: [youtube x66lV7GOcNU]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people reading this blog that Google provides a number of services other than their traditional business area of web search. Many of the tools can be used as part of an online…

Very funny:

Blogbase is a new wiki I have started to put together resources on blogging, for beginners right through to seasoned bloggers. Feel free to check it out, and please sign up to help build up the wiki! Cross posted from…

There are a number of ways that content providers can make related information available to readers. One such method is to provide tags on posts which link through to services like Technorati or del.icio.us, so that items which other people…

There’s mounting evidence that Facebook is becoming not just the preeminent social network, but a platform through which the rest of the web is viewed. Take Robert Scoble’s view, who sees Facebook as a ‘data black hole’: I added the WordPress…

David Wilcox in a post called Developing the New Media Open Innovation Exchange opens upthe site and the community that developed around it to become a network of social media collaborators, dedicated to producing services and platforms for social benefit.…

Here are the slides from a presentation at the Information Authority:

The next project for Change2 is to be a search engine for the not for profit sector. Please can anyone with sites to suggest do so in the comments for this blog post. Thanks! Tags: change2

For a while I have been wanting to put all the bits of work I do on social media into a little basket, just to organise it and let people know that the same person is behind them all. In…

Google is working on a new social network with Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institut called: Socialstream. Video below. It seems like it will be more of an aggregator, bringing content together from across different social networks and services. Tags:…

Docstoc, currently in private beta looks very interesting as a competitor to Scribd, the ‘YouTube for documents’. The video below shows how Docstoc works. [youtube GLWhgu1trpA] Tags: docstoc, srcibd

Following up on previous posts about Google Gears, the web service that lets you bring your online world offline, I thought I ought to post about a couple more examples of it being used. Both have popped up on the…

For a while I have been wanting to put all the bits of work I do on social media into a little basket, just to organise it and let people know that the same person is behind them all. In…

I like FaceBook, though I don’t log in nearly as often as I ought to, so as to make the most of the service. One of the reasons that I don’t, though, are the tonnes of invitations I get to…

Heh. It’s good to know that I’m not the only one that hates Comic Sans: Tags: comicsans

Apologies for the lack of updates lately, have been busy doing other things. Here’s the latest video from Common Craft, to make up for it. It’s a plain speaking guide to social networking. Cool! [youtube 6a_KF7TYKVc]

I’ve been adding plenty of video’s to my VodPod, but of course they don’t appear in the RSS feed, so those that don’t regularly visit the site won’t know they are there. So, here’s a list of some of the video’s…

Here’s a presentation I have put together to explain some of the whats, whys and hows of creating a Google Customised Search.