I came across this excellent slideshow presentation from Andrew Hinton, which goes some way to explaining what is meant by "Information Architecture". It touches on Social Media, Web 2.0 and…
Category: <span>Social Media</span>
Dave Briggs over at LGNemedia has assembled an excellent montage describing Social Media as a vehicle for collaboration and knowledge sharing. I’m looking forward to meeting Dave today at the…
This is a neat little video explaining RSS is plain English. Note – it requires Flash Player 8.
Clearly I’ve been remiss in my recent blog and news reading since I only came across Wikileaks by accident. A bit embarrassing really given the name of my blog! The…
Dave Snowden’s post caught my eye today. (I’m interpreting Weltanschauung as meaning ‘world view’, or ‘accepted opinion’ here). Sensible (and deep) perspective on the social computing ‘revolution’ (my word not…
I’ve picked up on a couple of blogs recently referring to Ning, a platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own…
Bruce Mason over at TNN – Tags/Networks/Narrative has some interesting things to say about folksonomies, taxonomies and ‘collabularies’ (I choke each time I mention that word!). I’ve also learnt a…
I picked this item up from Beth Kantor’s blog who references a report by JISC on Web 2.0 technologies (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf) I have to say that, on the whole, the report…
I came across Picnik – a web site providing free photo editing and special effects. The site is still in Beta, and some of the creative tool tabs are annotated…
David Wilcox over at Designing for Civil Society has done an excellent job in putting together a social media glossary. I’m sure this will become a definitive reference source for…