Archive for October, 2008

Gartner Research - social networks will partly replace government.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This post from Gartner Research is well worth a good read for anyone interested in large organisations and social media.
Gartner predicts the execution of many government processes in human services, tax and revenue, health care and education will involve individuals who are neither employees nor contractors. Examples include replacement of some human services functions such [...]

Do Muslims have a sense of humour?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

That’s one of the questions asked on the site of a new programme being launched in Birmingham on November 7th.  The full question on Heard and not Seen is
I want to ask, “Do Muslims have a sense of humour?”.
I ask as the media portrays them in a negative way; extremism, fundamentalism etc etc. Where do [...]

Compact, concise, connected - why Birmingham (Post) must change.

Monday, October 20th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Above Marc Reeves sums up why The Birmingham Post must change. After 150 years as a broadsheet, he told tonight’s launch party that nothing this radical has yet happened to the paper. The loss of the Saturday edition and the change to stapled tabloid size are the the most visible changes, but to my mind [...]

The COSC - I can’t resist sharing this..

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

One entrant from Filmdash.  Might interest anyone who does community based stuff.

Eloquent Colalife Video

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Simon Berry’s patient yet relentless campaign to persuade Coca Cola to use its distribution network to trasnsporrt re-hydration salts is explained in this elegant short video.
Here it is, the 30 sec video to support the ColaLife submission to Googgle’s Project 10100 (10 to the 100th). Please go and look at it on YouTube. It’s a [...]

BAD08 Oxfam Advert

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

Useful blog action day reminder of the orgs that can move mountains to alleviate poverty.

BAD08 Birmingham Social Media Surgery: provisional results

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | 19 Comments »

I was enormously proud of all the people who turned up today to help voluntary groups in Birmingham better understand the power of the social web.  I’ll revise this tomorrow but just want to pop up some links before stopping for the day….

http://gerimoshers.wordpress.com/  is the new experimental blog of one visitor who will use it [...]

Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin - John Cleese

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

American accent – unh!