Web 2.0 and social media expert – and friend – Stephen Collins has teamed up with US based hinchcliffe & company to deliver their Web 2.0 University programs in Australia and New Zealand. That tells me that Web 2.0 University, which frankly I had not heard of until now (not that that means anything other…
In my previous post in this series on setting up a community site, I summarized the concept of the site I am working on, using the WordFrame platform, as being focused on social media in the geo-political region which includes China, South East Asia and Australasia. The name – Social Media East. This post is…
As per my previous post, yesterday was the day for the Future of Media Summit 2008, held courtesy of a video linkup simultaneously in Sydney and Silicon Valley. Event originator and organiser Ross Dawson has a “quick review” on the Summit blog and includes some links to reports of some of the discussions. On the…
Back in March this year I asked Is Brisbane Australia Ready for a Social Media Club? Today I have not only an affirmative answer to that (rhetorical) question, but the very pleasing prospect of participating in the official launch, at 6pm this evening, of Social Media Club Brisbane. This is the first Social Media Club…
WEB 2.0 STRATEGIES describes itself as the UK’s leading forum for exploring real-world implementations of web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 tools and techniques. Given that social computing expert (a real expert, as in walked the walk as well as talked the talk) Euan Semple was Conference Chairman, I’ll take their word for the self-assessment. So…
One of the first names that comes up when anyone talks about corporate blogging is that of General Motors VP Bob Lutz. His use of the GM FastLane blog is a standard reference for how a corporate executive might make effective use of blogging. Lutz gets not one but ten references in Debbie Weil’s The…