The fine folks at Apture were kind enough to feature this blog on Friday as their Site of the Week. Thanks! I’ve been using Apture for the past year since I discovered it being tested on parts of the BBC News site. What is Apture? It’s a powerful tool that lets visitors to your site [...]
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Do you use Posterous, the free blogging and photo-sharing tool? If you do, why? I just can’t see that I’d use it. I have blogs and a primary domain. I’m already all over the net with services, a few of which I actually use. So to me, it’s just another place to publish, another dilution [...]
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Last Thursday, May 28, I participated in “Web 2 EU: Publication 2 Participation,†a half-day conference in Brussels organized by the IABC Belgium chapter. As I mentioned in my post last week, I was there but not physically so: I was able to take part from my home office in the UK with the help [...]
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Published on May 18, 2009 · 8:17 am UK
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in Communication, Events, Experiences, Experimenting, Professional Development, Social Media, Social Networks, Technology, Twitter, Web, Workplace
I had a great time on Friday at Somesso London 09, the one-day conference about social media and large organizations. So many terrific people to meet, interesting topics to listen to and learn about, and opportunities to experiment with a few things. You can read what others are saying and see the many photos people [...]
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Back in 2005, blogs and podcasts were the envelopes being pushed, so to speak, by many in organizations large and small. One push that captured imaginations – certainly it captured mine – was NASA’s podcast experiment from space. In August 2005, during the Space Shuttle Discovery’s flight in earth orbit, Mission Specialist Steve Robinson recorded [...]
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The day draws closer for the general release of Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft’s operating system for PCs. The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) was made available on May 5. A ‘release candidate’ is a version of a computer program usually considered to be pretty close to the final version. I installed it [...]
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One of the hottest apps for the iPhone is Audioboo, a free services that lets you record up to five minutes of audio on your iPhone and then publish the recording to the web. It’s audio blogging made easy. I’ve been using it since it launched in March and love it for its simplicity and [...]
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I’m taking part in an interesting experiment to create a business book entirely via 140-character comments posted on Twitter. It’s the brainchild of Toby Bloomberg: So what’s a Twitter-book you may be asking? It’s a book written using Twitter as platform and distribution channel. Social Media Marketing GPS #smgps is the first business book to [...]
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They can’t match the volume nor quality of the thousands of photos taken by professional photographers with cool cameras, nor those from many amateurs, but these pics I snapped with my iPhone from the BBC live TV coverage at just gone 8am this morning of President Obama’s arrival at Number 10 Downing Street and then [...]
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I’m testing a new feature that the BBC is selectively rolling out – the ability to embed BBC videos in your own blog or other website. This feature is going to be very useful for anyone writing anything that references a BBC News report where including an available video adds something to your story. So [...]
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