I just wrote a short paper on Twitter.com, the wildly popular "microblogging" service (11 pages, 1.9 MB download).In the paper, I look at the incredibly diverse ways that people are using Twitter, then tease out some common threads that run...
Twitter.com
I just wrote a short paper on Twitter.com, the wildly popular "microblogging" service (11 pages, 1.9 MB download).In the paper, I look at the incredibly diverse ways that people are using Twitter, then tease out some common threads that run...
LinkedIn’s promise
Pretty much all my business friends are on LinkedIn. According to Read Write Web, LinkedIn has around 20 million members and around 6.6 million monthly active users. They are the clear global market leaders in the business networking space—Centre Net...
User Experience made better
Weaverluke provides world-leading User Experience strategic consultancy and research, design and testing solutions.(Social Design, User Centred Design, Information Architecture and Interaction Design—and consultancy, research and testing for the same...
My hairstylist is a Blog Friends user
Well, I must say I was pretty chuffed today when my Brazilian hairstylist, Pedro, told me that not only had he taken up my invitation to sign up for Blog Friends, but also that he really likes it and has found some great posts, including one that I had...
All of a Twitter
I'm really enjoying using Twitter wholeheartedly for the first time. It's a bit like tracking down an elusive party—a lot of my mates are hanging out there already. I'm also getting lots of inspiration for ideas for the integration of Blog Friends wi...
Advance Aid: a cause worth getting blogged up about
Aha, this is much better: a really heartfelt description of why That charitable cause is worth getting excited about, from an email to me from one of its Directors, David Dickie:It really is a good concept and one that can engender a culture of trade n...
Greetings of the (silly) Season
Received in an email from Fernando Barrio:Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the Northern hemisphere’...
Christmas blessings to one and all
Charla and I just walked home from some last minute Christmas shopping in Marylebone. Of course, we passed some homeless people along the way. I keep thinking of how sad it is that so many people will spend Christmas without loved ones beside them. My ...
Leading "Buzz Marketer" shows how NOT to do it
The other day, I received a request from a well-known "buzz marketer" (who shall remain nameless) to plug an organisation (which shall also remain nameless) on Blog Friends and/or on my personal blog. However, I politely declined. The organisation soun...
