Looks like the rumours about Google gearing up to launch a ‘GoogleMe’ social networking site to rival Facebook may be true. Why else aquire yet another social networking website and add to its stable of social media/social networking experts? Goog…
Much has been written about best practice for developing and nurturing on-line communities , such as Communities of Practice (CoP), and the accepted wisdom is that technology by itself – no matter how good – will NOT deliver vibrant and successful…
The problem with a free lunch is that you don’t always get to choose what you eat. I sympathise with the many users that have decided to close their Ning account rather than pay (the not unreasonable) monthly subscription. One thing I always look …
Google still doesn’t appear to have hit that sweet spot of social networking. They should be applauded for persistence, but not sure how many bites of the cherry they will get before users grow tired of engaging with the latest beta product. I’ve …
As content and data-mining transitions from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, or from Social Media to the Semantic Web, most thought leaders are betting on China as the front-runner in leading this charge. Chine is investing unprecedent amounts in developing ‘t…
I am honoured to have been asked by the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange (NetIKX) to give a talk/presentation at their AGM on 29th September about the challenges facing information professionals in today’s digitally connected world. …
I liked this article by Ron Howard, CTO of Telligent. I have a minor quible with the title of the original post (How to manage a sustainable community) which infers some form of hierarchical control, whereas my experience of on-line communities is…
On Saturday, April 24th, over 30 members of the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus and principal cast members from their upcoming production of La Traviata converged on the Reading Terminal Market Italian Festival in Philadephia. Wearing street …
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I had the privilege if being invited to present at the EDO 2010 International Congress in Barcelona at the Centre for Legal Studies and Specialized Training on 12, 13, 14 Ma…
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.htmlSo, it will soon be a Wave goodbye to Google’s innovative email-cum-social-media-cum-social-networking environment. Credit them with trying something new, and not being afraid to adm…
