Got an iPhone? Get AudioBoo

Neville writes about the latest service from Best Before – the guys behind the awesome turn-your-macbook-into-a-videobooth service Videoboo – which is Audioboo. What you do with Audioboo is simple: record audio on your iPhone and publish the recordings to your…

OpenGov

Mitch Sava of PolyWonk emailed me the other day with details of a really interesting event he is putting together with Simon Grice of Ideas.org, called OpenGov. Taking place in London on 22nd April 2009, OpenGov will be a practical…

Help Al survive for charity

My good friend Al Kitching writes a damn fine film review blog. He’s also doing something silly for charity: I’m being dropped into an “as yet undisclosed wilderness location” for five days of survival and adventure. The event will contain…

Event reporting toolkit

David has written about covering events again as part of his investigation of the role of the social reporter. He writes: So on the one hand it is more difficult to charge for the logistics, and on the other hand…

On non-professionalism

David’s blog post reminded me that I have been banging on to a lot of people about some vague idea which I’ve been calling ‘non-professionalism’. Basically, non-professionalism is the culture required to work effectively on the social web. If you…

Keeping it in the family

I’ve just found out that my sister is on Twitter. Do say hello to her – I’m sure that as a press officer for a big charity, she’d love to hear how they can be using Twitter and other services…