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Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 2
Wednesday was The Guardian's first Activate summit - a one day conference at Kings Place bring together people to discuss how technology, politics and social sciences could come together to forge the future. Yesterday I published some thoughts about the presentations by Gerry Jackson and Nick Bostrom. One panel, chaired by Emily Bell, focused specifically on politics, featuring former minister Tom Watson, shadow minister for science and innovation Adam Afriyie, and Thomas Gensener from Blue State Digital. Adam Afriyie's...

Read the full post - Published July 3, 2009 in Events, Media, Politics, The Guardian, Web - No comments yet

Activate 09 at The Guardian: Notes and take-away quotes - Part 1
On Wednesday I spent a brilliant day at Kings Place at The Guardian's Activate 09 event. It was a packed programme, which I'd like to blog about at length. To be honest though, by the time I left my brain was absolutely fizzing, and the day had covered so much ground that it was hard to know where to start. Gerry Jackson and SWRadio Africa So, I thought I'd start with what was by far the most emotionally moving...

Read the full post - Published July 2, 2009 in Events, Media, Radio, The Guardian, Web - 1 comment so far

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 6
This is the final post of a series based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. What about when it all goes wrong? A lot of brands can be very cautious about potential negative brand damage from social media. And it is true - you might make mistakes, and you will definitely be criticised online....

Read the full post - Published July 1, 2009 in Media, Social media, Web - No comments yet

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 5
This is the fifth of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Blogging With the rise of social bookmarking and the media championing Twitter, blogging has begun to seem distinctly old hat. It does look, however, to have survived the early predictions of it being CB Radio for the 2000s,...

Read the full post - Published June 30, 2009 in BBC, Blogging, Media, Social media, Web - 1 comment so far

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 4
This is the fourth of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Twitter Twitter has been, without doubt, the communications technology hype of the year. There are several ways that mainstream companies have been using Twitter - some more successfully than others. One approach is to simply announce all content...

Read the full post - Published June 29, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Social media, Television, The Guardian, Web - 1 comment so far

Daisy dares you to be young
I can't remember who pointed me to it, but earlier this week I was directed to a free download of a track by Daisy Dares You - the project of 15 year old Daisy Coburn. In order to get your free mp3 you need to sign up for some permission marketing. I always like to see a well optimised form, and so it was good to see 'United Kingdom' and 'Ireland' head the list of territories. There had obviously been...

Read the full post - Published June 27, 2009 in Music, Usability, Web - No comments yet

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 3
This is the third of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. The social bookmarking feedback loop The ratings you get on social bookmarking sites are valuable feedback, and some major news publishers utilise them to add value to their site. The Telegraph, for example, has a 'Most Dugg' widget...

Read the full post - Published June 26, 2009 in BBC, CNN, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Media, Newspapers, Social media, The Guardian, Web - No comments yet

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 2
This is the second of a series of posts based on a talk I gave during May 2009 at WebCertain's "International Social Media Summit" in London. You can find the first part here, and view the original presentation slides on SlideShare. Social bookmarking Social bookmarking icons have infected major publishers websites like some kind of Internet design plague. The vast majority of mainstream news sites and high profile blogs come equipped with a whole set of brightly coloured icons...

Read the full post - Published June 25, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Social media, Web - No comments yet

How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 1
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic An article based on my presentation at May's International Social Media Summit.

Read the full post - Published June 24, 2009 in Articles, Media, Popular, Post of the moment, Social media, Web - No comments yet

London IA Mini Conference II: Notes, facts and take-away quotes - part 2
Yesterday I posted the first part of my notes, facts, and take-away quotes from the second 'London IA Mini Conference'. The event was held on one of the evenings during the UX London conference, and was hosted at the Sense Loft in Soho. "Most implementations of information systems have failed" - Angel Brown That might seem like a negative quote but in the first talk of the second half, Angel Brown took on the brave task of explaining a highly...

Read the full post - Published June 23, 2009 in Events, Information Architecture, Web - No comments yet

London IA Mini Conference II: Notes, facts and take-away quotes - part 1

Published June 22, 2009 in Events, Information Architecture, Post of the moment, Usability, Web - 2 comments so far