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« Previous EntriesConsidering Amplification & Resilience
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009At last week’s NLab event at DMU’s IOCT the following video by the fascinating Andrea Saveri was launched…
Amplifying Businesses and Communities for Resilience - Andrea Saveri
One of the things I found most interesting about Saveri’s video was the idea of flexible, ad hoc communities/social structures. We often think of communities as long term, fixed entities […]
Being @bathcsc And Meeting The Geeks
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Over the last couple of months I have taken on an alternate identity in the name of experimentation and (hopefully!) corporate new media evangelism.
Now, that sounds glamorous… the reality is a little more prosaic: I have become @bathcsc - the resident Twitterer at Bath Bus Station’s Customer Services Department.
As part of an experiment in proactive customer […]
Church as a Web 2.0 Model
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008In the beginning there was a thought….
…and the thought was thus:
“Church is a community, not a physical place: the Internet is a community, not a physical place”
Within my local church community the vicars have been fighting a battle to change the way we use language when referring to church - emphasising the difference between “church” […]
Tweeting
Sunday, July 13th, 2008I was recently persuaded to try Twitter after observing its use at the NLab Social Networks Conference, where a live feed of everyone’s tweets appeared on the main presentation screen throughout the event. This could be used playfully (a message appearing behind presenter Steve Clayton read: “Steve is a vista pimp”, which later sparked some […]
NLab Social Networks Conference - Panel
Monday, July 7th, 2008
The conference concluded with a panel session consisting of Roland Harwood, Chris Meade, Vijay Riyait, Andrea Saveri. Here is a brief summary of the questions raised and some of the responses…
o. How do you get people to see that these tools are not just time wasting devices?
- more conferences
- more opportunities for people to get […]
NLab Social Networks Conference - Jim Benson
Monday, July 7th, 2008
The concluding keynote for the day came from Jim Benson, who discussed how to get the most from your social media experience – given that small businesses do not need more stuff to do!
He used a flow diagram to demonstrate that if you want benefits out of a community, you have to put stuff in. […]
NLab Social Networks Conference - Ken Thompson
Monday, July 7th, 2008
I was very interested to hear Ken Thompson’s talk, having read his white paper about the concept of Swarm Teams and explored his website, which goes into the biological parallels of his system in more details. Swarm Teams is a text message-based system, similar to Twitter, but based on the way teams work in nature.
He […]
NLab Social Networks Conference - Andrea Saveri
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Andrea Saveri from the Institute for the Future had so many fascinating things to say that my note-taking rapidly descended into desperately trying to write down everything she was saying.
Her theme was the amplified individual: the superheros within organisations. She also explored how the practices of amplified individuals and the tools they use can […]
NLab Social Networks Conference - Roland Harwood
Monday, July 7th, 2008Harwood’s whirlwind talk collected together lots of thoughts, research and parallels considering the question: “Are social networks the new cities?”, a title which Harwood noted is more than just a metaphor. Social networks are already starting to fulfil some of the functions that grow cities – creating a networked business economy and fostering public […]
anti-social socialising
Thursday, October 18th, 2007I came across this article earlier in the week about the anti-social networking sites Enemybook and Snubster.
I found the concepts of these two sites quite intriguing. Social networking sites that designed to provide a platform for anti-social behaviour. Are these just tongue-in-cheek parodies getting pixel-space on the back of the current Facebook-fad or […]
