The next project for Change2 is to be a search engine for the not for profit sector. Please can anyone with sites to suggest do so in the comments for this blog post.
Thanks!
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.
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.
Google Socialstream
Google is working on a new social network with Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institut called: Socialstream. Video below.
It seems like it will be more of an aggregator, bringing content together from across different social networks and services.
Cheers, Gears
Following up on previous posts about Google Gears, the web service that lets you bring your online world offline, I thought I ought to post about a couple more examples of it being used. Both have popped up on the Wikipedia entry for Gears, which is worth keeping an eye on for new developments.
The first one is SQLAdmin for Gears, which I cannot pretend to understand, though there is some explaination here.
Second is the far more straightforward Gearpad, which explains itself succinctly:
Gearpad is a simple notepad you can access from anywhere, even offline.
When you return to the network, your notes will be synchronized with the server automatically. Hooray!
Hooray indeed.