Social media step 1: join a social network
This post is part of my ’10 Social Media Steps’ series. Find them all here. Introduction The first step in the social media journey is to go and find what other people you might know are up to. As well…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Create your own Firefox search plugin
The search box on the FireFox toolbar is a pretty useful thing, giving you quick access to various search engines and other sites, like Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia. It’s based on a Mozilla project called Mycroft (that being the name…
My Top Twitter Tip
Twitter is great, it really is. Even with the downtime, the dropping of SMS updates in the UK and other places, and all the other little irritations with the service, it still manages to inspire a considerable loyalty among those…
What do people want to know?
I am planning a series of posts on this blog that will go right back to basics on a number of social web topics, partially just to be helpful but also to help develop the documentation for some workshops I…
8 tips for beginner bloggers
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…
Pageflakes screencast
Quite a few people were interested in how the pageflake for the barcampukgovweb was set up, so I have prepared a screencast demonstrating the process. You can view the flash movie here. This file is quite big (c19mb) and I…