Not another *#%! application
10 March 2008I’ve written recently about how I like Twitter. Here’s why I don’t like Facebook as much (hat tip to Paul Z Jackson and Andrew Rixon).
More on Twitter
6 March 2008Sometimes the planets just align. Here’s a video from those Commoncraft folk on Twitter in Plain English. Commoncraft rocks – and so does twitter.
Officially a fan of social networking
10 February 2008As of today (for no particular reason) I’m now officially a fan of social networking. When the Applied Improv group moved it’s web presence to ning I started to understand the potential of social networking. Since then I’ve set up four social networking sites of my own using CollectiveX – initially to play around and…
Uses for Twitter
24 January 2008Thanks to Brenda for the heads up on this article about academic uses for Twitter – raises all sorts of possibilities inside organisations as well. If only we could get some of the more pedestrian ones to recognise the possibilities around social media instead of fearing that staff will ‘waste company time’.
Tuesday morning inspiration
22 January 2008On a surfing trip through the blogosphere I found these inspiring: From Stephen Shapiro: When individuals are incented to “do the right thing” rather than hitting targets, you will find increased creativity, improved performance, and a happier workforce. From ChangeThis: a manifesto about ‘Ideacide’ – why ideas die and what you can do to pitch…
OK – I’ve finally succumbed and joined Twitter. My friend Johnnie Moore says ‘it’s like water cooler conversations for those of us who work alone’. And he also describes it as ‘nano blogging’ (cos you can only use up to 140 characters per post). He’s written some interesting blogs about Twitter too – so if…
Written into spoken
14 January 2008Leif Hansen writes about a gizmo, thingy (that’s as technical as I get!) that turns anyone’s written blog into audio that you can even listen to on your iPod. Eeeeeekkkkk!!!!!! I can’t keep up.