by Laurel Papworth on January 31, 2008 · 0 comments
I don’t know why I used camelCase in the title. I must be losing the plot.
Anyway, here are 5 tips for corporate blogging. I’m not much of a blogger (in spite of being in the top 100, I really am NOT), and I tend not to write about blogging, but blogs often ARE the [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 31, 2008 · 5 comments
Well, that sucks:
BUSINESS USE OF IT
Key indicators of business use of IT include: adoption of IT (computer use, Internet use, web presence); use of broadband; and Internet commerce (placing and receiving orders via the Internet or web, Internet income). The move to the BCS vehicle has not had a significant impact on the comparability of [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 30, 2008 · 1 comment
Hmm this rumour gain?
More Gphone Rumours
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Following years of are they aren’t they, it would seem [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 30, 2008 · 1 comment
I’ve got a thing about lawyers. I don’t know what it is.. brainy? glasses? I think they were the original geeks, before technology came along. Anyway, I am downloading this right now as we speak. (from social customer manifesto)
Social Networking for Business and the Law: A Podcast
(iTunes) (MP3)
Ok, that was fun. Had a [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 29, 2008 · 1 comment
Ok you’ve invested time and energy into developing a Facebook application or a widget or whatever. You are competing against other hot marketing types with their company’s social networking strategies. But I bet you didn’t see this one coming…
… the consumers en masse take action to block you from their networks.
You can block single applications [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 29, 2008 · 0 comments
will trade links
Gaping Void always comes up with the goods
I was asked on the ABC Radio last night (will link if/when there is a podcast link) to talk about Second Life and … relationships. I ended up describing how to buy a “boy bit or a girl bit” (yep, my words, unfortunately) in Second Life [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 29, 2008 · 0 comments
The Ministry for the Environment is looking for an environmentally conscious senior web adviser to work on a high profile sustainability project. (from seek.com.au)
Senior Sustainability Web Adviser
Sustainable Households ProjectFull-time, three months fixed termVacancy 1027
Environmentally conscious Senior Web Adviser wanted
We are looking for an energetic Senior Web Adviser to join our enthusiastic and motivated team working [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 26, 2008 · 0 comments
Best review of the year (so far) from Jason Chen at Gizmodo:
Spykee the Skype Robot Gets Three Friends With iPod Dock Crotches
[...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 22, 2008 · 5 comments
Facebook: Fitness First Hate Group. Um I’m just social bookmarking this consumer anti-marketing group on Facebook which is not exactly supportive of Fitness First. For my non- Australian readers, Fitness First is a gym and fitness chain. Not only in Australia but this group (1,297 members, 1,298 when I join, in minute) is primarily Australian.
The [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 22, 2008 · 1 comment
Don’t yell at me for this one, I just want to explain how social networks can take a real world ritual and turn it upside down – a la buying cards from an anti-Valentines Day site.
Valentine’s Day is like herpes: just when you think its gone for good, it rears its ugly head once more. [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 21, 2008 · 4 comments
Peter Thiel, the man behind PayPal, Facebook and Thank You for Smoking…
Interesting read – I didn’t agree with his opinions and summations but the facts were interesting. Remember – it’s from Tom Hodgkinson of The Guardian, so it is not going to be rabidly pro- capitalism. :
Although the project was initially conceived by media [...]
by Laurel Papworth on January 20, 2008 · 8 comments
From CrikeyMedia on YouTube
In online communities, years ago, we used to use the politically incorrect term “Forum or Admin Nazi” to denote a forum moderator that deletes content due to either a) a rigid interpretation of the rules or b) makes up the rules as they go along. An example of a) would be deleting [...]