Tom Smith
Tom Smith is now helping improve collaboration at the University of York.
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Tag Archives: Social Software
How To Attract 1 Million Unique Users Every Month By Being Selfish, Think Visibility 2009
On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending yet another great Think Visibility conference. My talk, How To Make Social Media Suck Less, was based on an ongoing discussion with Andy Theyers of Isotoma about trying to work out what … Continue reading
Using Google Page Creator/Blogger and Other Free Services for supporting Small Organisations and Communities
I am always on the look out for new and novel approaches to supporting small groups of people have a presence and communication online using low-cost tools. THE CHALLENGE Many small organisations, such as Easingwold Running Club, need a web … Continue reading
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Your Space isn’t My Space
I love the idea of collaboration. I love drawing. Collaborative drawing is a rare thing… it hardly ever works…. for me at least… and one of the main reasons is because of the lack of ownership within the collaboration. Collaboration … Continue reading
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Now goofing off at shit jobs doesn’t just waste your time…
(via headshift)… How does a PR department deal with this, and how can management of a low-end Supermarket that pays low wages to teenagers for menial jobs prevent it happening again? It’s a tough one, with potential echoes in a … Continue reading
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IBM tries to turn your workspace into MySpace
In this article, IBM tries to turn your workspace into MySpace, at the Register we hear of the plans afoot from IBM to “socialize” Lotus Notes. To be honest, I haven’t used Lotus Notes ever for a very long time, … Continue reading
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Mixing-up “Selling” with “Social”
Although Hugh kinda has it right when he points to Stowe and agrees that public relations is “getting social media all wrong”, what the real problem is they are both hanging out with the wrong sort…. and anyway, when have … Continue reading
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RememberYourFriends.com
Peter, fellow python-er has made RememberYourFriends.com, for people who forget to remember their friends. Now if I could only remember which web site I put everything I had to remember in… remember-your-aide-memoire.com perhaps… good luck Peter…
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Like… dur!
The article How to Get People Linking and Commenting on Your Blog has some great advice about blogging for people who really will never ever get it… ever… not even slightly…. Here’s another tip. If you want people to talk … Continue reading
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Social Web Application Design
Luke has made some great slides about Social Web Application Design, saying some very sensible things very well. I particularly like the “System” diagram that shows how, when thinking about a simple photo, how it can be connected to other … Continue reading
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Geowiki
I’m very interested in Geowiki, where you can add your own points and comments. From a usability perspective… it only lets me enter points by clicking… a very inaccurate way of adding them… especially when I know the exact point… … Continue reading
Valencia Workshop and Las Fallas
Yes, it’s time for the inevitable “hoilday” photos of us all working really hard and some belated history of the las fallas festival which is completely insane. I don’t think there was much more than a 1 minute interval when … Continue reading
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Las Fallas Fire Festival
I’m heading off to Valencia for a few days to brainstorm a few improvements to Microsoft’s Virtual Learning Environment. I’ve been looking at it over the last few days and I’m amazed at how, for me, very basic online design … Continue reading
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