Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on the company blog last week apologising for missteps with the roll-out of their much maligned Beacon advertising system. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with h…
Another excellent video from Lee Lefever over at Common Craft. This one explains Blogs – in plain English!
A thought-provoking and highly entertaining presentation from Roo Reynolds (IBM’s ‘Metaverse Evangelist’) at today’s Online Information Conference. I came away with a resolution to spend some time getting to grips with Second Life with a view to s…
It remains something of a tragedy that most public sector web sites still don’t support RSS. I can probably accept that council officers and other senior public sector workers don’t understand what RSS is, but surely the various ICT departments or…
I was looking for some inspiration in putting together some guidelines, rules and policies for online communities of practice. Nancy White over at Full Circle Associates is always a good starting place for this sort of thing. Here is another examp…
So, we wake up today to the news that our favorite government agency – Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been responsible for the loss of personal data for 25 million people. The data included names, addresses, bank details, national in…
I will be presenting at the Online Information Conference 2007 on Wednesday 5th December, on the topic “Communities of Practice in Local Government”, which is part of the overall theme of connecting users and harnessing intelligence using social n…
Just picked up a new blog by Caren Levine at Techstew, which comments on the role of the ‘Technology Steward’. This is something I’ve been doing for the past 18 months for the I&DeA’s community of practice platform for local government. It’s good …
The most comprehensive summary I’ve read so far on Microsoft’s foray into social networking via their Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) product. The article is an extract from a forthcoming white paper written by three Microsoft …
Search, information, cetgorisation, tagging, social bookmarking, social media – it’s all here in another excellent video from Mike Wesch.
