Tag: socialmedia

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 charged [...]

Chiltern Railways impress with their use of Twitter

  • August 24, 2009 at 5:47 pm
  • A couple of times I have voiced on Twitter my frustration with the arm rests on Chiltern trains. It hadn’t occured to me that the company might be listening.
    Since nothing happened the first time I tweeted, I suspect that Chiltern were not using Twitter then. However, when I tweeted again recently…
    “I’ve asked before & I’ll [...]

Citizensheep's audio on Audiofarm

  • August 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm
  • I’ve been lookikng for a good audio sharing service for a while, and stumbled across Audiofarm. You can choose to grant your files ‘preview only’ playback or Creative Commons licencing. It would be great if the site also offered some annotation features and codes for embedding into web pages as well as the sharing options [...]

So this is what I do…

  • August 6, 2009 at 11:26 pm
  • I find it exceptionally difficult to believe that I have any skills of note, and keep meaning to force myself to try and audit them just to check. So here I’ve spelled out what I do in my day job, and some of the challenges I’ve faced.
    Although I’m still not sure I know any more [...]

Digital users are volunteers as well as consumers

  • June 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm
  • In his Digital Britain Final Report, Lord Carter sets out his plan to keep Britain “at the forefront of the digital revolution”. But a revolution needs revolutionaries, who are driven by passion and not just economic incentive. Has this report overlooked the importance of people as volunteers, and the impact on their social contributions of [...]

How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study

  • June 22, 2009 at 5:17 pm
  • The furniture shop Habitat recently made a very wobbly entrance into Twitter, by not appreciating the norms that have evolved there. Not good for a trusted brand; although even with the disgust voiced by some in the community I doubt it’s damaged their business particularly.
    However, the episode did spawn this blog post, which – as [...]

Has your MP signed in favour of putting parliamentary footage online?

  • May 26, 2009 at 6:30 pm
  • Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire, is trying to convince Parliament to allow the posting of parliamentary footage to social media services such as YouTube.
    She is asking other Members of Parliament to sign her Early Day Motion in support of putting parliamentary procedures online. At the time of writing 28 have done so.
    If [...]

Since using Twitter…

  • May 12, 2009 at 2:14 am
  • I keep telling people how my life has altered since using Twitter, even though I’m well aware of how sad that sounds. The thing is it’s not really about Twitter at all, but about people: all Twitter did was help me find them.
    This post will appear particularly self-indulgent: it’s trying to articulate something that I [...]

OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles

  • May 6, 2009 at 4:03 pm
  • Excellent post by Tim Davies. He argues that when it comes to governments and large organisations engaging with technology for social change, there is not one big challenge but lots of little ones; and that as those multiply, the ability to engage effectively shrinks. He then lists 50 key challenges that he's encountered so far this year: so now we know they exist we can do something about them; and – hopefully – improve the chances of technology to support social change effectively.

    Visit OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles

How would we spot a nervous breakdown on Twitter?

  • March 16, 2009 at 8:37 pm
  • With so much of people’s conversations and personalities now available for everyone to see, is there a responsibility on us as users of social media to keep an eye out for others?
    If the answer is ‘yes’ – as I should hope it is – does that mean that we should also learn to see cries [...]

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