03May/11

Excellent Engagement

3 May 2011good practice, microblogging, social media, twitterengagement, local sports team, the simpsons, twitterJon Bounds

Content, interaction, community—that’s what your social media profile is all about. It’s a message that seems to have hit most brands, and organisations right down to the smallest. But from what I’mRead More…

13Feb/11

Ask a stupid question…

13 February 2011consultation, good practiceAustin, consultation, Fort Wayne, Harry Baals, UservoiceJon Bounds

If there was one central point to remember to make online consultation successful it would be that if the question isn’t a good one the best response you’ll get is none. If the object ofRead More…

24Sep/10

Loose Tweets Sink Fleets

24 September 2010good practice, twitteradvice, tweets, twitterJon Bounds

…or otherwise carefully crafted communications anyway. If you’re newish to Twitter and attempting to communicate with people to achieve anything more than a way to update friends or follow people you likeRead More…

21Sep/10

Mind Your Language

21 September 2010good practice, twitterlanguageJon Bounds

We’re all aware, or should be, of the power of language. It’s one of the central ideas of 1984, that you can direct or restrict thought by what words you use forRead More…

10Sep/10

Chernobyl Fallout

10 September 2010future web, good practice, social mediaautoposting, Eddie Fewtrell, facebook, Gaia, twitter, uk.local.birmingham, usenetJon Bounds

“What would happen if the world were suddenly without people; if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react —and how swiftly?” That’s the question asked by theRead More…

07Jul/10

Clay Shirky and the Cognitive Surplus

7 July 2010future web, good practice, social mediaclass, clay shirky, Cognitice Surplus, representation, revolutionJon Bounds

George Orwell said, in an essay of fulsome praise of the man and his work, that Charles Dickens “was not a revolutionary writer”. He didn’t mean that Dickens wasn’t capable of orRead More…

05Jul/10

Skip-Tech — be careful what you back

5 July 2010future web, good practice, social mediaminidisc, QR code, skip-tech, technologyJon Bounds

I’ve have three separate conversations about QR (Quick Response) codes, which lead me to wonder if there were at last reaching some kind of mainstream use or at least critical mass. IfRead More…

06Nov/09

It’s coloquial, mate

6 November 2009good practicecommunity, fix my street, it's buggered mate, localJon Bounds

Lots of good clean fun on Twitter this morning where Paul Miller (@rellimluap) pointed to an “Australian Fix My Street“. It’s just a mock-up, created at the Canberra govhack hack day, butRead More…

22Jul/09

You are not your brand online — and especially not on Twitter

22 July 2009good practice, twitterbranding, twitterJon Bounds

Yes, good interaction on the social web is all about personality. But. Brands aren’t people, they don’t have friends, desires, dislikes. They don’t have time off. People do. So if you’ve decidedRead More…

09Jul/09

Open data may need to change the way data is collected and stored

9 July 2009future web, geodata, good practiceBirmingham UK, FOI, help me investigate, open dataJon Bounds

Like Nick Booth, I was pretty excited to hear of the results of this FOI request for data about parking fines from Birmingham City Council. Not so much as because I careRead More…