Tag: World Wide Web

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 [...]

The Electronic Civic Council encourages you to create your own digital ‘blue plaques’

  • September 7, 2010 at 6:50 pm

  • Last night I set up the Electronic Civic Council. It’s aim is to encourage people to use geo-location tools to share historical or civic information about places. It came from a chat with Jon Bounds, who in turn had been chatting with Jez Collins about spreading music-related trivia. It’s a bit of fun really, but [...]

YUI Graded Browser Support

  • June 25, 2010 at 4:00 pm

  • This page has been around for a good while. I’m flagging it up now because I’m trying to build up a sort of toolkit and primer for colleagues managing websites; the rather unsophisticated ‘every user should have exactly the same experience on our website’ is – sadly and surprisingly – still a common attitude. This [...]

Social media: peripheral impact measurement

  • September 8, 2008 at 10:05 am

  • It’s fairly easy to gauge the impact of a blog on a discussion by the quantity and content of comments, backlinks etc. But I am a lazy blogger: I don’t write very often (it doesn’t occur to me to, I don’t have anything to add, or I don’t have confidence in my opinion). But I [...]

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 [...]

Join the cause for standards in html email

  • October 1, 2007 at 5:17 pm

  • I’ve suffered plenty of headaches trying to create standards-compliant emails, and have given up in favour of bloated, cumbersome, outdated html (ie the stuff of nightmares where the design of each paragraph is dependent on its own font tags).