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Following my beginners’ guide to blogging, I thought it might be nice to expand further on what sort of content you can use on your blog. After all, a blog is just a website, and what you do with the…
One of the great things about Twitter is the community that comes with it. Not just the community in terms of the people you follow, and who follow you, but also the network of people working to make Twitter more…
TechCrunch announces the launch of a new Mozilla (the guys behind open source projects like FireFox, to name one) site called Mozillla Messaging. This site aims to ‘fix’ internet communications, firstly by driving the development of the new version of…
WordPress is the best, we all know this. As well as the amazing free themes that are available, there are also tonnes of plugins which make your blog do interesting and cool stuff that it can’t do out of the…
WetPaint is a hosted wiki service that I haven’t really used before – I tend to stick with WikiSpaces, though have used pbwiki a fair bit recently for the barcampukgovweb. By the looks of this great video from the Common…
The diagram (click it for a readable version) above is one I put together a while ago to try and explain what I think the terms social media and web2.0 actually mean, and how the two relate to one another.…
Mmm. Stupid Americans. Mmmm. [youtube:] Hat tip to Dave Winer.
John Naughton: …the Guardian has a policy of allowing people to post comments anonymously, which IMHO is a good way of encouraging people to behave badly, because they don’t have to take responsibility for their views. I’ve always thought that…
We’re off for a trip next week, to Cornwall for a few days. There may well be some light blogging ahead. Anyway, we are trying to cram in as much stuff as we can, and make the best use of…
Danah Boyd writes a post about a rather worrying occurence: a friend who had their Google account taken away from them: Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make…
William Shaw is a great writer, and a great guy. He’s written a number of non-fiction titles, mainly on counter-cultural issues and is now doing some exciting stuff with social media, looking into stuff like uses the blog format to…
Jeremiah Owyang posts about a report he has written for Forrester. The executive summary is all we really need: To host a successful community, think of it as you would product development: Start by focusing on objectives, chart a road…
I have been thinking quite a bit recently about what people need to do before they start a blog. I know that one should say that blogging doesn’t necessarily suit everybody, but, to be honest, if there is novel in…
The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits?…
I’ve started a podcast! the interruption is going to be a weekly chat between me and someone doing something exciting in social media and web 2.0 in the UK. The first episode is a discussion with Paul Johnston of Cisco,…
Of course, in my earlier discussion about why anonymous posting is generally speaking a Bad Thing, I forgot to mention the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory: Sums it up perfectly for me.
Had a great meeting today with two of my fellow facilitators at the Community of Practice for Knowledge Management in the Public Sector (don’t worry, we’re working on the name). The community has been running for a little while now…
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One of the many areas of communications which can be improved by using social media services is the press release. Indeed, there are a number of sites dedicated to creating a ‘social media release’, including a group blog and a…
At work we are having our personalities dissected through the wonder of Myers-Briggs. It’s a way of finding out how your personality affects the way you work, and how you interact with others. Hmmm. Anyway, it turns out that I…