Tag: Online social networking

What works for dogs in social media doesn’t necessarily work for citizens

  • September 10, 2010 at 5:39 pm

  • Lots of people in the voluntary sector will tell you that your organisation should be using Twitter*, and that it’s easy to engage with your audience by doing so. What many seem to overlook is that while Twitter may well be a useful tool for your work, there is no ‘one size fits all’ model [...]

Could foursquare empower people to break commercial advantage?

  • November 24, 2009 at 10:22 am

  • A while ago I chewed over the problem of making it easy for members of the public to leave useful contextualised information for others in spite of opposing commercial incentives. Whether their developers intended it or not, foursquare could be the solution. I had been incensed by a cashpoint in Birmingham’s International Convention Centre. It [...]

Social technologies and the blurring of formal and informal learning

  • October 9, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  • Last night I went to Education Unbound 2008, a debate on ‘how social technologies are blurring formal and informal learning‘. The panel comprised Dan Sutch (Futurelab), David Noble (Hillside School, Fife), Andy Gibson (School of Everything) and Catherine Howell (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies). It was chaired by Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor at Channel [...]

Man jailed over accidental Facebook message

  • October 8, 2007 at 7:38 am

  • This is a bit scary: a man who had been ordered not to contact his wife was jailed when he inadvertently sent her a message on Facebook. He claims the sign-up process confused him—in the same way that it confused me—by sending automatic friend requests to people in his existing contacts lists. “I certainly hadn’t [...]