We’re getting familiar with the mantra about the need for efficiency and cost savings in the public sector. We also hear about the difficulty in measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) for use of Social Media. Well, here is evidence of both; how …
Like it or not, we have another social network to embrace in Apple’s Ping. The good news is that it integrates with other networks, except (as usual) Facebook, which continues down it’s own information cul de sac. I haven’t tried Ping yet, but it …
The video ‘ Social Media Revolution’ has recently been updated. Well worth watching.
URL: http://transparency.number10.gov.uk/ I applaud the initiative behind this new website, clearly in line with the gov’s transparanecy agenda. But how much better it would be if developed as a dashboard showing a graphical representation of Key …
So, it seems a walled garden is being erected around Google services (it’s always been there for Facebook). I can’t really see this hurting Facebook very much. The loser is (once again) the user who will no longer have the facility to easily join …
I have every sympathy with Google. Hopefully a lesson here also for the UK public sector – there are other (and better and cheaper) products than MS Oulook, MS Sharepoint and Internet Explorer 6. Whatever happened to that level playing field?Ampli…
I will be running a session on the ‘Knowledge Hub’ at the the Local by Social Online Conference this Wednesday 3rd November, 3pm to 4.30pm (GMT). See more details below about the Online Conference. A brief synopsis of the Knowledge Hub: Knowledge …
Great news for anyone who supports open standards and quite a brave move for Yahoo (parent company) who have recognised that having a proprietary login process (you need a Yahho ID in order to sign-up for Flickr) may be a disincentive to setting u…
Social TV is slowly but surely making its entry in the social world offering you the possibility you watch television, real time or on demand, while checking tweets about the program and interacting with friends or likeminded people who are watchi…
I’ve been running a regular social media training event for some time now and have gradually built up a fairly comprehensive knowledge asset at the Social Media Toolkit Wiki that I use as the foundation for the training. Given the general thirst f…
