A lovely post about the nonsense that is perpetuated about Twitter accounts being "hacked" when it's either something people regret or an honest error. [link]
August 26th, 2010
Synonyms For Churlish : An open letter to the marketing dude at the National Theatre who posted 'c–t' to their Twitter account
July 28th, 2010
Kristine Lowe: Do you remember back when revealing an opinion could get you fired?
A great examination of what I referred to as the public/private problem. Well worth a read. [link]
May 19th, 2010
Jon Bounds on the half-appearance of the internet election « Labour Uncut
"it was never going to be a simple case of joining one Facebook Group over another. The web can handle nuance, even if our electoral system can’t."
A piece I've written for a new, and very promising looking political blog. [link]
November 5th, 2009
10 local government social media myths
Nice bit of mythbusting — most of which apply to all sorts of situations: [link]
by Jon Bounds | Posted in del.icio.us | Tags: government, localgovernment, social, socialmedia, work
June 11th, 2009
Midlands Media Awards People’s Choice
Big City Talk is up for the Midlands Media Awards People’s Choice Award. The awards are to “recognise an individual or group that has used social media tools to make a difference”. The Brum Bloggers Social Media Surgeries are also on the list, as is the 4am Project. [link]
January 8th, 2009
Ze Frank's new blog on online partcipation projects
Ze Frank has long been the master of mass participation on the internet, if he's involved with something you can be sure that all the barriers for people to join in have been broken down. He's started a new blog with "notes and advice to someone like me" — which is you if you're going to try anything online that you hope people will join in on. [link]
by Jon Bounds | Posted in del.icio.us | Tags: online, participation, socialmedia, web, work, zefrank
November 4th, 2008
Twitter 101, Part 4: Tips for Being Successful on Twitter
Being "sucessful" on a social media service is a bit of a lose term, but this post has some good points to consider especially if you ae thinking of tweeting for an organisation. [link]
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]
by Jon Bounds | Posted in del.icio.us | Tags: communication, community, culture, Flickr, internet, people, socialmedia, web, web2.0, work
March 3rd, 2008
Links for 3rd March
- The Charms of Wikipedia – The New York Review of Books – "Pop-Tarts are a "flat Cookie." No: "Pop-Tarts are a flat Pastry, KEVIN MCCORMICK is a FRIGGIN LOSER"
by Jon Bounds | Posted in del.icio.us, twitter | Tags: , culture, internet, socialmedia, wiki, wikipedia, work
February 28th, 2008
Bookmarks for 26th February through 28th February
These are my links for 26th February through 28th February:
- GeoPic II geotags your Nikon shots, saves on battery – Engadget –
- ITN doctors footage – Apparently they dropped advertising into the background of Brits items? Dodgy
- TweetVolume – see how often stuf gets twittered – a sort of "twitterfight"
- press complaints commission to investigate media scraping of social media content –
- Google Talkabout: Google Talk chatback – 'Guest' chat widget for people to connect with you via GoogleTalk – very clever for small blogs. untill someone invents GTalk spam
by Jon Bounds | Posted in del.icio.us, twitter | Tags: , blogging, chat, communication, fun, geo, geotag, google, googletalk, im, law, mashup, media, news, nikon, photography, socialmedia, socialnetworking, twitter, web2.0, widget, work
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