Social Media

Exchanging Innovation, Openly

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. He’s even created a Facebook group.

This fits in perfectly with my vision for Change2. All the sites I have developed provide services using Web2.0 and social media technology for free to the people who will make use of them.

Easily my most successful is LGSearch which clearly filled a yawning gap for people wanting to be able to run searches for information within the UK public sector.

The Open Innovation Exchange is currently lacking a logo. I’ve put the following two efforts up for consideration.

Oie1 Oie2

In the meantime, my focus is clearly shifting away from local government specific stuff, and more into the wider non-profit sector, and specifically, I think, into the gaps between the two. I’ll need to decide how much longer LGNewMedia is to last – especially as there is a chance I won’t be working in the sector by the end of the year.

Change2

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.

Google Apps

In addition to that, I have been playing about with Google Apps and wanting to find an excuse to start using it.

So, I merged these two and set up Change2 on Google Apps. My experience of Google Apps has been good so far, despite some trouble with putting a basic site together with Page Creator. What I have looks ok, and I have set up a blog on WordPress.com to cover the other bits.

Another role of Change2 is to publicise the fact that I am willing and able to help anyone out with social media type web stuff, and am happy to give my time up to charities, community organisations or any other non-profit organisations.

Am also moving all my email across to dave@change2.org. Given the number of accounts I have spread over the web, it’s going to take a while to get sorted. Thankfully, I can pop all the mail from my Gmail account into the Change2 one, which makes life easier.

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Roundup

Here’s a few items that have caught my eye today:

  • Ning – the do it yourself social networking platform – now makes it possible to add audio to your networks, something that was seriously lacking before. Now music, podcasts and any other form of audio can be uploaded or linked to.
  • Richard MacManus of the excellent Read/WriteWeb blog, discusses the launch of version 1 of EyeOS, a web based ‘operating system’. It’s like a desktop that runs inside your web browser, and what’s more, it’s open source. Give it a try.
  • Guy Kawasaki blogs how we went about setting up his latest social media project, Truemors. There’s even a slideshow on the subject.
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Demofuse and Screencast-o-Matic

Two fairly similar services here, brought to my attention by the ever reliable TechCrunch.

Demofuse

Demofuse allows you to create ‘tours’ of your websites, to demonstrate functionality, say. It looks very useful indeed, and will be something I will be using for some of the services I’ve put together.

Screencast-o-matic

Screencast-o-Matic is a service that lets you create screencasts – that is, the recording of what happens on your PC screen – within the browser for free. Cool! Screencasts are great for recording demos of how to do stuff on the PC, whether online or not.

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coRank

CoRank

CoRank is a site which lets you create your own social bookmarking sites, which are hosted at yoursite.corank.com – a similar kind of thing to what Ning does with social networks.

This is a great way for small groups to share information through weblinks between each other, without going to the trouble and expense of setting up something like Pligg on a server.

I’ve set up a CoRank at http://virtualcommunities.corank.com/ – feel free to join it and have a play. I’ll still be using del.icio.us as my main bookmark repository though.

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