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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009How big is the digital footprint of your event? Did it make it onto the trending topics list on Twitter? How many people followed the keynotes via live streaming video? How much of the conversation was captured?
These are the kind of issues that crop up around “amplified” events. I have been to several amplified conference-type […]
Paper-Mediated Experiences
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009I have recently been grappling with a question:
Is it possible to have an authentic spiritual experience mediated by a computer?
Several of the papers I have been reading raise this issue, particularly with reference to online rituals. Aside from there being no sure way for social scientists to determine an authentic spiritual experience (only an […]
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” […]
Reading Habits
Friday, September 12th, 2008The iPhone application eReader has changed my life. Or at least, my consumption of literature at any rate. But, crucially, not in the ways that technophobic publishers and bibliophiles would have predicted…
…Here’s the thing: I am still reading traditional, print-based books. The whole ink and paper malarky. Shocking, I know!
What I […]
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 […]
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