Del.icio.us and social bookmarking
An excellent article on del.icio.us and social bookmarking. From a Librarian as well! I take back what I said in an earlier posting on this topic!
Google are getting serious about social networking
Interesting things happening at Google, with much speculation that they intend making a more serious and focussed foray into the social media arena. The recent purchase of Jaiku (similar to Twitter, but with more features), and the growing interes…
Measuring the value of KM and Communities of Practice
I came across this post from Andrew Gent today, regarding ‘Management’s’ precoccupation with measuring the value of KM in their organisation, and – for example – using ROI as a measure of the effectivenes of CoPs. I suspect this will resonate with…
Social Media User’s Bill of Rights
Came across this today, which seems to be gathering a body of support. I like the sentiments; pity it’s not enforceable! Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington have authored a bill of rights for users of the social web. Th…
The Facebook debate – can we take you seriously if you’ve never used it?
I’ve recently seen a flurry of blogs about the merits (or not) of Facebook as a social networking environment. I was stirred to action when I read Elsua’s blog this morning, which in turn refers to the question posed by Mitch Joel “Can you claim t…
Forget digital preservation; it’s paper we need!
I was amused by an article in the July/August 2007 edition of Information World Review regarding the problems caused by (lack of) digital preservation of e-documents at the National Archives (TNA) – though I should add the intention of the article…
Social Bookmarking Video
Another great video from the Common Craft Show. This one explains Social Bookmarking.
The Google Experience
My colleague Dave Briggs has put together an excellent summary of the various Google social media applications on his LGNewMedia blog. Things like Reader, Google Groups, Docs and Spreadsheets, Blogger, Google’s customised search service, Google Ma…
Communities of Practice in Local Government
The Community of Practice platform at the Improvement and Development Agency is an integrated set of Web 2.0 tools that is being used to support and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing across local government communities. I produced the…
Interview with Etienne Wenger
Knowledgelab have posted an interview with Etienne Wenger, and a full (90 min) lecture given by Etienne on the topic: “What if we assumed that society itself is a large-scale learning system?”Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social…