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Social Networking Tips… Beth Kanters Question. My answer

Friday, November 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Beth used Facebook to ask for our time saving tips for professional and organisational social networking. She asked specifically about tools etc to help work across mutliple sites (something which I can’t answer) but I can offer some basics, and getting the basics right will save wasted time:

1 Guiding principle number one is to [...]

Governor 2.0, Tanya Byron and the Digital Media Literacy Summit

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Thursday morning and the phone goes. My kids’ secondary school. “Gawd”, I think, “I need to catch a train to London”. Don’t panic. No accident, no expulsions. It turns out I’ve been elected one of four parent governors.

I can be slow at times – because I spent the rest of the day at [...]

 
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The Revolt of Common Sense - Larry Lessig

Friday, November 9th, 2007 | No Comments »

Watch this – no seriously watch this video.  Thanks and thanks.

Net2ThinkTank: It’s the shopping season - so get your supporters shopping for your cause.

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Britt Bravo at Netsquared has thrown out this question: How Can Nonprofits Use the Social Web During the “Giving Season”?

The truth is that this is the shopping season – so make the most of it with something that’s a touch web 1.5.

Sign up for an affiliate site and encourage your supporters to use it [...]

Facebook and Boredom

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Lloyd Davis (on facebook) pointed me to this headline   FACEBOOK DISTRACTING WORKERS FROM UNDERPAID, SOUL-DESTROYING TEDIUM, SAYS CBI   which is the point we were trying to make here.

Facebook is a time waster - so why not ban it TUC?

Thursday, August 30th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I know Facebook is a timewaster. I could have used many hours more productively over the last couple of months, but instead I install apps, answer facile quizzes, and then uninstall apps. Using Facebook can smack of that guilt you get when you start smoking after a week of quitting: the guilt [...]