Facbook – you either love it or you hate it. I hate it – but Mark Zuckerberg does at least seem a nice sort of chap. Maybe he’ll settle down and get married soon – that will add a sense of reality to his life!Amplify’d from www.mercurynews.comHis …
URL: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/Improve%20your%20Facebook…Facebook fan pages are a great way to promote your business or organization, are easy to maintain and they keep your personal profile separate from your business page. To its credit Fa…
Some interesting and pertinent points made by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, regarding the ‘coralling’ and siloing of information on the web. He cites Facebook as a particular example of how they capture user-generated information and hold it hostage. I als…
Thanks to Bill Ives for the blog and to Stan Garfield for defining the ten principles. Great stuff! Amplify’d from billives.typepad.com One – Communities should be independent of organizational structure. They should be based on the content. Two –…
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…
