This week’s Media Report (Radio National) is on ensuring civility on blogs and social networks. The page Listen Now Download The question we were asked to address was this: how do you encourage civility between commenters on your blog? Margaret Simons starts with a Taxonomy of Blog types. 1. Pamphleteering2. Digest3. Advocacy4. Speciality, niche5. Exhibition6….
Guess what I’m doing Monday night? TA-DA! Keynote and then a panel about Mobile Social Networks, at Mobile Monday Sydney. You got something better to do? I Don’t Think So… 🙂 Next Up – Marketing via Mobile Social Networks :: 6.30pm for 7pm kickoff, Monday 5th May 2008:: The Privilege Bar on George St., corner…
Journey to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – I fly out late tonight, Sydney time. Heigh ho, Heigh ho, it’s off to Jeddah I go. In December 2006, a major Middle East broadcaster had a writing competition. They invited young Arab women to write in and say why they mattered. As in “why do Arab women…
My crap attempt at microbogging Jack Matthews: Content is King for FairfaxKevin Anderson: should The Guardian have seesmic in their blogs? Kevin Swanepoel: Viral videos are cool Morning Tea: chatted with Kevin Anderson who has contacts with Saudi women bloggers BBC: we the consumer are learning and evolving. BBC takes television and convergence and creates…
From Strange Maps: For cartophiles, the main problem with this map is not that interviewer Larry King’s head covers most of Europe, or that the bulky figure of his guest, moviemaker Michael Moore, obscures much of America. The problem is not what it hides, but what it misplaces. See the huge island continent of Australia?…
I love, love, love the guys at Freshview/Campaign Monitor. I’d do anything for them. They just never ask me! *bursts out weeping* But all is good in the world – I just got an email! : Just wanted to drop you a line about a new position here at Freshview with the boys – we’re…
Bit of a silly article from The Times: Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life Can online friendships ruin real-life relationships? Some users of a very popular social networking site believe so – and that’s why they’re taking drastic action, says Emma Justice Stephanie Painter’s death was swift and painless. At 9.10pm on February…
OMG. Oh. My. God. If anyone ever asks you to chair a conference DON’T DO IT! Seriously. It’s really hard work! (And we’ve already established that I’m lazy). I’m involved with a Enterprise 2.0 conference at the Crowne Plaza and we’ve got about 12 speakers per day. My job is to introduce the speakers –…
John Anderson (top left), Russell Tavares (bottom left) and the digitally altered image of Tavares that Anderson posted on a photo-sharing website. This is a beautiful case to explain some points of hosting/moderating a community. Read this article Online Dispute turns Toxic by Stephen Hutcheon at The Age site, and then come back here so…