Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Public, private, personal, political

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Further to ongoing thought on this area, it's not just Public or private. Of course. Duh. It's public, private, personal, political (with a small p)... One's personal thoughts may not be of interest to others (indeed one's professional colleagues are quite likely to hold different opinions), and are quite likely to distract ...

Skillswap: 26 July: Symfony

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Am proud to announce another cracking gig to come from our Bristol Skillswap community, this time we're going back to the nub of programming and get down with the currently fashionable and diverse 'frameworks' domain. Darren Beale has agreed to stand up and be stared at, asked questions of, and, more ...

Only 0.6% Of Users Make Content for YouTube

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

This seemingly low figure compares to 0.2% who make content for flickr and 4.59% of visitors who make content for Wikipedia. The statistic is the percentage of overall users of the site who contribute content. The article in the Guardian's Siteseeing, by Heather Hopkins of Hitwise noted, "Visits to Web ...

Ashton Court button generates steady donations

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Keeping up with the We Love Ashton Court Festival story, our report on the button we asked everyone to put on their virtual homes shows a new steadiness where before there was spikiness. Since we started, the buttons have had 38,600 views, leading to 170 direct clickthroughs to the donation page ...

Community metrics from the Online Community Unconference

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Thanks to the Online Community Unconference organisers and attendees for opening up their wiki to those of us who couldn't make it. Sharing is caring :) I was particularly interested in the 'Community ROI' page/presentation which features some of Joe Cotherel's (Lithium) collated stats (which I re-present gratefully below), and Bill ...

Co-designing a ‘platform’: Arts Council and Thrive

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

David Wilcox and I are working on a project with The Arts Council's OD Thrive! project. Our remit is to assist them with their online community. We see this as a couple of phases which weave in and out of the virtual/physical worlds: 1. Helping the project members (up to approx ...

Presenting at ‘Social Tools for Business Use’ conference

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Further to the success of Unicom's last Social Tools conference, Julie Valentine and the Unicom team have put together another two day London UK conference dedicated to the fast moving world of 'everything2.0'. It will take place on July 11 and 12 in London, and information about the event is on ...

We Love Ashton Court: the plot thickens

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Having started as a simple button to spread a viral meme around the internet, 'We Love Ashton Court Festival' has expanded to provide a brand and information support for all of the fund-raising activities ongoing around our local festival which we love very much and hope will be here in ...

I&DeA: CoP facilitator’s workshop

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Having been invited by Steve Dale and the I&DeA communities team to do a presentation at their CoP facilitators' workshop, I spent a fantastic day at IDeA central, working with the IDeA facilitators and discussing all things related to Communities (on and offline) and knowledge sharing. We did some excellent networking ...