Archive for May, 2008

Myturf - volunteer website for Birmingham from Birmingham City University

Friday, May 9th, 2008 | No Comments »

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Very good looking site at myturf designed as a means of coordinating volunteer effort in teh city.  I’ll be interested to see how/if it works.

Marc Reeves, The Birmingham Post and Five fine questions on blogging.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I love a blog post which asks a good question. This lunchtime the editor of the Birmingham Post, Marc Reeves, popped up five corkers as he wrote about how one of his guest (corrected thanks to Jon) bloggers had attracted a good chunk of derision from readers for this post and this one.

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Twitter commentary on Birmingham City Council Live election results streaming

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »

To read more twitter responses to the very enjoyable and very local live streaming of the election results in Birmingham please look here. I enjoyed the streaming (hosted by Adrian Goldberg) but the text service (link here) was clumsy and the media pack only available as a pdf – which is bonkers ‘cos [...]

Poachers in the Masai Mara and the social web. A great case study.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Update on ranger Leyian who was shot: In total they gave him 6 pints of blood, and are keeping him under observation in case of infections.
That’s the latest tweet from the Mara Triangle on twitter and it illustrates some simple principles of good use of social media for charities and non for profit organisations.

The twitter [...]