Social Technology Rant

A client recently asked me to help them understand "Multichannel Communications" - you can also insert "360 degree campaigns" or various other buzzwords of choice here. Below is my response. Much of it has been delivered before, but the message doesn't seem to be filtering through to industry as a whole (perhaps due to social…

Add a tweet

I've seen a few in browser comments systems in my time, however I've never really taken to using them. Until now... What makes http://www.addatweet.com/ different is that it actually fits with my existing practices and behaviours. Normally when I see a page I like or something that interests me, I want to comment on it…

Augmented Content Update

Some time ago I wrote a post on Augmenting content, and elaborated on how it could potentialy change the way we interact with video content, and how it could be used as a means of monetisation for sites such as youtube,through Augmented content use. Firefox 3.5 video augmentation tools make this feasible and doable. I'm…

Open Calendar Systems: Sharing time

Open calendar systems, seem to me to be a massively underexploited gap in the Web 2.0 marketplace. I have yet to find anything that is remotely good enough, and that fully exploits the opportunities that shared time presents. Sharing time based information creates numerous opportunities and an open calendar with an intuitive UI represents an…

Competition – Design Bar Camp Sheffield Logo

Roll up, Roll up all those who seek kudos and recognition, plus the opportunity to win a copy of Balsamiq, a tool that allows you to create software mockups in minutes. The brief is to design us a lovely logo, better than one I have created as a place holder. Naturally I will not be…

A Call to Collaboration Part 1.

As part of my work for http://www.LocalEyes.org, I have identified that an issue faced collectively by Social Enterprises is reaching the "Community". Many groups already exist that "engage with the community", ie. they get together and they do stuff. The organisers of such groups, are exactly the kind of people, we should be helping, and…

Citizens, not Customers

This post stems from yet another great talk on Ted, which as well as using the phrase "technosis externality clusterfuck" with reference to urban archictecture, also leaves you with the fantastic "don't refer to yourself as a consumer, you are a citizen" The point being that a consumer or customer is passive, they are served.…

My Building Democracy Application – Taking it Old School

Sorry that's not the title of the Application, just a reference to the ethos behind it, ie. how can we merge "Old School" offline social technologies, with the "New School" to ensure no child left behind (sorry took the schooling metaphor too far). You get the jist Title: Community Bridge Description: Bridging the gap between…

The Ideas Diary – How YouTube can turn a profit

Photo Credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwaszewski/ Further to my previous post on Augmented Content, i'd like to follow with an example. The example in question, could remove some of the many issues of media rights that we presently face, if the right profits share systems can be created. Augmented Broadcasting Imagine your watching a film and you see…

Jay’s Lexicon – Augmented Content

There's been a lot of talk of content, and user generated content, but strangely the phrase augmented content I find greatly overlooked. Especially as the process of content augmentation is one which we appear to be constantly engaged in, albiet at the moment in a limited form. Augmenting tweets by linking to urls and blogs,…