Social Media Starfish
Nice graphical representation of the social media landscape, posted to Flickr by DBarefoot.
Social Media
Sketchcast – social whiteboards
Sketchcast is a great little tool which allows you to record yourself drawing a sketch – whether roughly with a mouse or more accurately with a graphics pen – and you can add audio commentary too. Here’s a great example from Anecdote, explaining how communities of practice can be used to create action and outputs. … Keep reading
Lee Hopkins on Social Media
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]
Google: Not just Search
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 community environment, indeed it’s possibly to build an entire platform – albeit one spread amongst … Keep reading
Sphere – finding related content
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 have tagged with the same term can be found. Sphere, however, provides a whole new … Keep reading