Social media at work
It’s become such an everyday term that it’s hard to imagine that ’social media’ only dates back to around July 2006. But here we are a little less than 4 years later and Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many others have become an everyday activity for millions of people. And where you find millions of people, [...]
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is something that I’ve been aware of for ages now but haven’t really been interested enough to find out about and certainly not interested enough to use, until recently. According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is a “method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.” Still not sure what it is? You’ve [...]
Trying out search engine optimisation
I’ve always shied away from search engine optimisation because I’ve never really understood it. I realise the benefits it can bring but it’s always seemed too complicated to be able to do myself. However a few weeks ago I decided to give it a shot and thanks to a few decent articles found through Google and attending an [...]
East Lothian Coffee Morning
Had the first meeting this morning to start arranging the new East Lothian Coffee Morning which we’re launching on 22nd January 2010 in Musselburgh.
The mission of the group is to help local businesses understand and use technology and social media to enhance their organisation and ultimately win more business. We’ve got a LinkedIn group page [...]
East Lothian tweeters
I decided the other day that I would try and pull together a list of East Lothian based tweeters using Listorious. I suppose it’s just another way of trying to encourage interaction at a local level, albeit using twitter, a global application.
I used three main techniques to compile the list:
I initially started adding my own contacts [...]
Web 3.0 and the future of social media
Just spent 80 mins watching this recent webcast of Stephen Fry, Biz Stone (Twitter founder) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder) discussing the future of social media.
The gist of it was that the internet, and therefore social media, is too organic to figure out where it might go. 80 minutes to agree that they don’t really know. Brilliant.
It [...]
How do Google make money from Chrome?
Just downloaded and tried out the Google Chrome web browser tonight to give it a whirl and it turns out I really like it. I especially like the omnibox which is basically an integrated address bar and search box. I’ve yet to use it enough to give a definitive view on it but I’ve liked what [...]
First post
So finally my site is complete.
I bought a wordpress package from GoDaddy that included domain and hosting. It looks at first glance like a good system if you have no coding experience but I actualy found it quite restrictive and even though I’m using a template and only managed to get the layout looking like [...]