This post stems from yet another great talk on Ted, which as well as using the phrase “technosis externality clusterfuck” with reference to urban archictecture, also leaves you with the fantastic “don’t refer to yourself as a consumer, you are a citizen” The point being that a consumer or customer is passive, they are served. […]
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My Building Democracy Application – Taking it Old School
Sorry that’s not the title of the Application, just a reference to the ethos behind it, ie. how can we merge “Old School” offline social technologies, with the “New School” to ensure no child left behind (sorry took the schooling metaphor too far). You get the jist Title: Community Bridge Description: Bridging the gap between […]
The Ideas Diary – How YouTube can turn a profit
Photo Credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwaszewski/ Further to my previous post on Augmented Content, i’d like to follow with an example. The example in question, could remove some of the many issues of media rights that we presently face, if the right profits share systems can be created. Augmented Broadcasting Imagine your watching a film and you see […]
Jay’s Lexicon – Augmented Content
There’s been a lot of talk of content, and user generated content, but strangely the phrase augmented content I find greatly overlooked. Especially as the process of content augmentation is one which we appear to be constantly engaged in, albiet at the moment in a limited form. Augmenting tweets by linking to urls and blogs, […]
Creating tools for public engagement in secret
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 […]
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 […]
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