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.
January 16th, 2009

DIYcity: reinventing your city by building web apps

A very interesting looking site, that wants people to try and test their ideas about using the web to help improve our living spaces.

"Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? DIYcity is a place where people figure these things out by actually building and launching applications that address the problems around them." [link]

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October 25th, 2008

Social Media Classroom

A free system to create social media in the classroom – available to download – that includes “integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. … curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos.” It’s based on Drupal, which I find difficult to use (setup and customisation expecially) from a techincal point of view, but most of this is done for you here. [link]

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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]

February 28th, 2008

Bookmarks for 26th February through 28th February

These are my links for 26th February through 28th February:














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