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Archive for September 2009

WordPress Plugins I Use

A list of WordPress plugins, with links and some words about what purpose they serve A friend who is setting up a WordPress blog asked me yesterday what plugins I use. He also suggested I do a blog post on the subject. Here it is. Akismet Akismet by Matt Mullenweg checks your comments against the

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links for 2009-09-25

B.L. Ochman's blog: The Top Six Reasons Companies are Still Scared of Social Media More than a list, a concise, authoritative, neatly argued overview of why some companies resist social media engagement. And why those "reasons" don't stand up to sensible, suitably informed scrutiny. (tags: social-media social-web B+L+Ochman)

Previewing Social Media Roadmap Workshops Brisbane and Gold Coast

Next week, on September 29, I’m teaming up with Associate Professor Michael Rees of Bond University to deliver a one day workshop for businesses in the Brisbane (Australia) area on social media. Then the following week, on October 2, we do that again on the Gold Coast. (Update: Brisbane workshop now postponed to a date

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links for 2009-09-17

J D Lasica with Howard Rheingold on Media Literacies Howard Rheingold is quite simply one of my heroes. Here in a video interview with J D Lasica he talks about media literacies and the new digital divide between those who know how to use the new technologies "and their minds" and those who don't. Rivetting

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Slide Deck on Social Media for Skool Project 2009

I had been apprehensive in advance of my presentation on social media today at Griffith University, as a contribution to the Skool Project 2009, organised by cricketer and Griffith staffer Michael Jeh and which I posted about earlier this afternoon. After all, I would be presenting to a group of digital immigrants and I was

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