photo credit richard winchell This is a WTF post. There are several organisations that I’m aware of at present developing social media strategies in secret. At the core of all these strategies lie themes of transparency, accessibility, open communication, and community engagement. Yet the strategies themselves are being designed with the minimum of public consultation […]
Category Archives: Web 2.0 Musings
Web Improvements
Pondering the world of web improvements, one of the joys is that if you can think of it it already exists. Fantastic as it means I don’t have to wait for the functionality, or if I do I don’t have to wait for as much of it. So first up – The split browser function. […]
Organisations and Social Media – Stage 1. The buy in
To start introducing social media into any large organisation, one must first recognise the obvious – Social media is social. It can only be as successfull as the number of people using in, and social forces will come into play. What do I mean by social forces? I mean your dealing with people, each will […]
Socialising Social Enterprise
At the Catalyst awards Dan Mcquillan asked “what next?” for the Catalyst Awards and Social Enterprises. He suggested a mash up of all the events together to bring them all under one roof. I suggest taking it a stage further. Why don’t we look in more detail at the collaboration opportunities that exist within these […]
One night in ten ideas: Tag Linking
Tool that links delicious tags with your blog page, so when people add tags for your page, they add them to your page.
Key Factors in the Future of Social Networking
Some of the issues addressed are being addressed, some are original – I hope. Data Ownership – Data ownership should remain and always remain the property of the individual. Issues of data ownership need to be addressed strongly going forward, no company has the right to own my data. I may grant them permission to […]
Who’s story is it anyway?
The problems with Wikipedia as outlined in the article attached http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1190, highlight one of the greatest problems we face in age of ubiquitous information. It is the question of “Who’s story is it?” However this has always been a problem, it is just that in the present age as we all gain the power to […]
Improving the knowledge stream
As the world changes, and all our knowledge goes online, with insurmountable intellect and nonsense available to all in equal measure, the way we interact with this knowledge must change if we are to derive the maximum benefit from it. New roles and behaviors must emerge to enable us to adapt to this evolving resource […]
What’s happening Sheffield?
Sheffield has a diverse array of cliques and tribes, events and scenes. It’s all very well to have these hidden little groups, but it limits what the community as a whole is capable of. So here’s a hack to start putting some kind of activity map together. This is about what your doing that’s interesting […]
The Rise of the Social Aggregators
I’m writing this through Flock, which so far is impressing me with the passiveness of uploading. ie. I log onto a social site it remembers me and puts it on the tool bar. However there are now so many social sites out there the gravity and relevance of social aggregators will be determined by how […]
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