Every now and then I come across new words, or words that are very old but which I haven’t come across before. I love it when I find someone’s invented a word for something that has really needed one. I guess it’s not surprising that my favourite word is “serendipity”.
When I heard about the Hay Festival’s Most Beautiful Tweet contest as judged by Stephen Fry I did wonder what they were talking about. A tweet can be informative, interesting, surprising, witty, engaging, well-written, poetic – but beautiful? Still, the Hay Festival’s director, Peter Florence described it thus: “The definition
I’ll definitely follow you on Twitter if… … you catch my attention! There are several ways to increase one’s number of followers on Twitter – it’s been shown for example that a profile picture of a smiling head photo is more likely to attract followers than a depersonalised icon, Twitter
With the way Facebook changes almost daily, it’s good to get some useful information from those who make it their business to keep up to date with it and particularly with the way that groups and “fan” pages work, an area that has changed a lot recently (along with Facebook
Ning has added two good features for helping your network avoid spammers. Better moderator tools are essential if Ning is to compete in the market for paid-for community platforms. I’m glad to see that they’re beginning to offer good value with their well-priced new services. The first new feature prevents
I’ve had reservations about Facebook’s privacy for some time. In fact I approach all free commercial applications, from Google to Ning, with a healthy dose of scepticism. Recently I’ve been reading Dan Yoder on his blog Rocket.ly and on Business Insider. He gives ten very cogent reasons why he has
Now that Ning has announced that it is phasing out free services, it’s time to take another look at our Ning communities and to establish what might be a reasonable alternative to Ning. For my longest-running Ning network, ELESIG, we are prepared: a hard-working group from this community of practice
Sometimes I am accused of being a pessimist: I always treat technology, especially wonderful new inventions, services and applications, with a healthy pinch of salt. So I laughed a bit hollowly to read that Ning are phasing out their free social networks (as well as reducing the number of their
The unprecedented closure of the UK’s airspace today due to an ash cloud drifting over the country from a volcanic eruption in Iceland brought out the best in social media as well as traditional media reporting. Twitter was alive with links and explanations, from elearning companies providing free resources for
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