Posts in social media

Online Protest – does it work?

The answer: yes, sometimes and sometimes in conjunction with offline activity. Does offline protesting work? Sometimes. I’ve […]
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The Big City Plan – Part 4 – Did it work?

The Big City Talk site collected 274 comments, not a huge number perhaps — but from my […]
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The Big City Plan – Part 2 – Why

I enjoy my free time, so why did I (and the rest of the team) give up […]
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The Big City Plan – Part 1 – Constructive Activism

Birmingham is getting a real reputation for being a place where social media doesn’t only happen, it […]
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Here Comes Everybody Else

I spent a great high-minded couple of hours yesterday at BCU and the Creative Industries Book Club […]
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onBirmingham – let’s try local news on Twitter

Twitter is now pretty much established as the place where news can break most quickly — when […]
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It’s behind me. Twitter pantomime, a social media experiment

Pantomimes have taken a good couple of hundred years to evolve from ballet and variety acts, they’ve […]
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Feed Me – RSS isn’t an option, it’s a must

The Birmingham Post recently published a ‘list of shame’ of local bodies that don’t make their information […]
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The hinternet, the internet we’re missing

There’s a new digital divide, a fissure opening wider and wider as the social web makes encroachment […]
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Missing out on Twitter conversations – is the network straining at the limits?

I have a twitter problem. It’s not addiction, despite recently breaking the 3,000 tweet barrier, nor is […]
by Jon Bounds
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