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Defining Social Media

This is nice, via Neville Hobson: ‘Social media’ is the term commonly given to websites and online tools which allow users to interact with each other in some way – by sharing information, opinions, knowledge and interests. As the name…

Defining Social Media

This is nice, via Neville Hobson: ‘Social media’ is the term commonly given to websites and online tools which allow users to interact with each other in some way – by sharing information, opinions, knowledge and interests. As the name…

Cost cutting, and welcome home!

Welcome to my wordpress.com blog! I’ve basically decided to cut right down on my web expenditure. Having the vebrig.gs domain was fun, but the renewal was going to cost £35, and the bill for my hosting is due next month…

Valleywag on Second Life

I’m a Second Life sceptic. Plenty of other people are too, like the author of this Valleywag piece. Interesting stuff in the comments, too. So what accounts for the current press interest in Second Life? I have a few ideas,…

Manchester to be rebuilt…

…in Second Life. The Manchester Evening News reports: MANCHESTER is set to open a virtual version of itself in the internet simulation game Second Life… The aim is to promote the Manchester `brand’ and raise awareness of the city in…

LGNM Podcast #1 – WordPress

Here’s the first LGNewMedia podcast. It’s the first in a short series about some of the great social media and Web2.0 tools that are available. This first one is about WordPress. I hope you enjoy it – please leave a…

Education LGSearch?

You might wonder why I haven’t put education sites into LGSearch. Well, the reason is that someone else already has done, and I’m not in the business of thunder stealing. The new links page at LGSearch reveals all. At the…

LGSearch+ Update

The ‘slicing’ of the RSS feeds is now working, so now only 10 items per feed are displayed. I had only tested the layout in FireFox at the weekend, and having now tested it in IE 5.5 the feeds carry…

LGSearch+

The latest development to LGSearch is LGSearch+ – which is simply a different search page, but with the latest news from the IDeA, The Guardian‘s ‘Society’ section, the latest links from Info4Local and the Local Government Association‘s news. These are…

What is Social Media?

Robert Scoble asks ‘What is social media?’ Stowe Boyd answers: Social Media Is Not A Broadcast Medium: unlike traditional publishing — either online or off — social media are not organized around a one-to-many communications model. Social Media Is Many-To-Many:…