Next up in the series of introductory guides to social technology is this one about Flickr.
Embedded below, or as usual, there’s a PDF to download from this page if you need it.
What is Flickr?
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Webchatting: barriers and evaluation
Yesterday’s live Kind of Digital web chat about overcoming barriers to implementing social media went really well.
You can relive the whole thing over on the KoD website, or download a rather basic PDF of the transcript.
Our next chat has been scheduled in for Tuesday, August 16th at 11am BST. It’s going to be on the thorny subject of evaluation of digital engagement activity – great!
You can sign up for a reminder over here – hope you see you there!
What is LinkedIn?
Here’s another of my short What is… guides – this time it’s about LinkedIn.
Embedded below, and as usual, if you can’t see it, you can get the PDF from the Kind of Digital site.
What is Linkedin?
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More soon!
What is Twitter?
There was a bit of discussion on Twitter this evening about explaining Twitter to the uninitiated.
(If this sounds a bit navel-gazingy, that’s because it probably is. Hang around in any online space for long enough and you soon end up in meta-conversations of this type.)
Emma Maier of the Local Government Chronicle is organising some collectively written guidance on a Google Doc – here’s the link and I recommend you get stuck in!
Of course, a longer guide is the one I wrote for Learning Pool a couple of years ago, and which is soon to be republished in an updated form.
In the meantime though, I thought I’d knock together a quick single page effort, which ought to be handy for the absolute beginner.
I’ve embedded it below, but if you can’t see it, go to the ‘Useful Stuff’ page on the Kind of Digital site and you can download a PDF.
What is Twitter?
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I’ll be doing some more of these – LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and blogging are all bound to feature. Would these be useful? Any other topics spring to mind?
Let me know!
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- Generating QR codes using PHP and the Goo.gl API – Lovely little guide from Stuart Harrison (@pezholio).
- Numberhood – Interesting looking local open data app.
- Online Government Services and the Offline Older Generation : Fujitsu United Kingdom – Interesting research
- Therefore it’s unacceptable… – "The potential for digital inclusion to generate true public value through open data, transparency and coproduction is a much bigger saving than we as individuals get from shopping on line or the government gets by delivering services on line."
- Coming to Terms with the Consumerization of IT – R “Ray” Wang – Harvard Business Review – "For the most part, they're using these consumer technologies at work already — often because they're better than anything the IT department can provide."
You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.