Books
I just learned that an anthology on sharing culture, edited by Heidi Grande Röys, the Norwegian minister of Government and Administration Reform, is out today (via Sermo Consulting). It's called "Shared opinions - about the web's social side" (my adhoc translation, more about the
Blogging
Here's a golden chance to get two hours of consulting services from social media veterans Adriana Lukas and Chris Heuer for a bargain. Adriana emails to say they are currently auctioning two hours of their time on eBay. I'm a bit late to this story as
Blogging
Here's something which, despite all the current doom and gloom, makes me both hopeful for the future of the world at large and despondent about my own industry (and if you'd rather focus on the former, feel free to jump past my chronology of frustration:-)
Blogging
What if we were to look at mainstream media's response to social media, such as blogging, thorugh the prism of disruptive technology? This is an issue I've been mulling over since I heard Espen Andersen's talk on disruptive technologies, open source and mobile at
Marketing and PR
“Social” is a bubble. Trust me on this. I urge all consultants on “social ______” (fill in the blank) to make hay while the sun shines. Even as the current depression deepens, lots of companies are starting to realize that this “social” thing is hot stuff and they need to get
Blogging
I stumbled across two great SlideShare presentations that really gave me something to think about today - in the best possible way as they are both quite uplifting takes on the times we are living in (the first via Fred Wilson, the second from Neil Perkin). Despite the disparate titles,
Journalism
Great stuff from Robin Hamman: in preparation for his first day teaching on the MA International Journalism programme at City University, he asked his twitter and facebook followers to help him come up with an outline for the lecture. Here's the results from twitter. Makes me feel rather
Marketing and PR
In my introduction to using the social web - which I should have put the sign "work in progress" on, but have now gone over and added more links/ edited for clarity - I only thouched very lightly on the all important issue of rules of engagement online
Epistemology
Paal Hivand asked a question on Twitter this week, which had me thinking about a recent conversation on ... eh ... Twitter. Thing is, Paal said (in Norwegian) that he was contemplating an article about how knowledge used to be individual, but now is social. I'm not going to go
Blogging
If you've followed this blog for a while you will have heard me muse on many of these issues before, but these are my notes, in a more coherent form than I had them jotted down, for the talk I gave on Saturday, which was just to set
Blogging
I'm so happy to see so many find their way to #socialweb so early a Saturday morning (see previous post for twitter feed). Using Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 tools for investigative and in-depth research Colin Meek: Web 2.0 tools fantastic tools for journalists to