Social web & social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit. I also do the odd bit of art.
March 30th, 2010

The State of the Internet Operating System – Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly on the web as a platform, moves toward "the cloud" aren't the half of the debate – there's a battle for who will control the low level services on the web just as much as the desktop. [link]

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June 10th, 2009

WxWM2 Audio

Thanks to the wonderful guys at Rhubarb Radio (where I also do the Saturday breakfast show, plug plug) the improvised talk on my personal journey towards communities online from WxWM2 is now available as audio. Not only is it the full talk, and good quality, but you don’t have to look at me waving my arms about — and since there were no slides that’s got to be a good deal.

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Download it if you wish.

There are also all of the other talks too, not fair of me to pick one out — you will probably enjoy them all.

June 8th, 2009

WxWM2

A week or so ago I did an impromptu talk at WxWM2 (a gathering of the social media interested) in Brum — it was very much an unconference format so I wasn’t sure I was going to say anything at all. However a slot arose and I talked for about 20 minutes about how I came to be running a “community” website — almost by accident — and how it’s important to understand the responsibilities that people who (voluntarily almost always) end up providing useful online services are taking on. Often, if there isn’t a lot of support, it can end up feeling a burden, however much the people care:

Jon Bounds at WxWM2 from Nicky Getgood on Vimeo.

Thanks very much to Nicky Getgood for capturing as much of it as she did.

March 24th, 2009

Thomas Payne – father of blogging

I was going to write a huge long blog post about this, and I still might, but inspired by Nick Booth – here it is as just a statement.

If Guttenburg‘s press is the Internet, Thomas Paine is the stirings of the social web.

And you’re invited to flesh out my theory for me…

by Jon Bounds | Posted in social media | Tags: , , ,
September 30th, 2008

Community management the Flickr way

Great little article about how the flickr team manage thier worldwide online community. "The job always comes down to finding the fulcrum in the teeter-totter, the balance that benefits both the individual and the community," [link]

March 3rd, 2008

Links for 3rd March

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