Social Media – it’s not the Wild West after all.
If there is one good thing to come out of the Newsnight fiasco, which resulted in the irresponsible and inaccurate smearing of Lord McAlpine on social networks, it’s the challenge to the long-held assumption that Tweeting or blogging defamatory or…
Future trends in social media and social networks
Cross-posted from Collabor8now blog I recently co-presented a session for NetIKX on “future trends in social media & social networks” with Geoffrey Mccaleb, with a solo follow-up Webinar for the Knowledge and Innovation Network (KIN). The content …
Nobel Peace Prize Winners – Three Incredible Women
Nobel Peace Prize Winners – Three Incredible Women I was privileged to be in the audience yesterday at the Oslo City Hall for the CNN interview with the three Nobel Peace Prize Winner Laureates; Yemen’s Tawakku Karman, Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirl…
Reflections: Online Information Conference 2011
Pretty exhausting, incredibly insightful and hugely enjoyable: that would sum up my three days as Chairman of this year’s Online Information Conference 2011, held at the Olympia Conference Centre between 29th November and 1st December. The last ti…
Think differently about the world and you will always do well
Loved this from Toby Moores, (now DR Toby Moores) – which I’ll add to my list of favourite quotes: There is no point in being in a straight foot race with people who are faster than you. But if you fire the gun you will always have a job and if yo…
Surviving and Thriving as a 21st Century Knowledge and Information Professional
The above named article has been published in the most recent issue of Business Information Review. Regretably, under the terms of agreement I signed with the publishers (Sage), I’m not allowed to post the full article here. However, the following…
Data is the new oil
Loved this abstract from a blog by ‘media futurist’ Gerd Leonard: Getting too little or bad data — or not understanding it– will literally mean running out of gas in the middle of the desert. Therefore, the mission is to keep it all fueled up. A…
Cascade data visualisation
Cascade – data visualisation of the impact of a single Tweet; shows sharing activity to construct a detailed picture of how information propagates through the social media space. Cool! http://nytlabs.com/projects/movies/projectcascade.movCascade w…
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
Bringing statistics alive through visualisation. An awesome display using statistics to explore the differences of health and wealth in the world.