Information as art? It can’t get more beautiful than this
Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens conference in York which I also covered for the excellent CultureVulture blog. Now, I’m a pretty jaded conference goer and nowadays I like to think I’ve seen it all before. By the end of the conference’s second day I was [...]
Bradford’s first Social Media Surgery
Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter, cool
Next week sees Bradford become the latest town in the UK hold a Social Media Surgery. The informal gathering of people interested in either teaching or learning how to use the web will be held at The Gumption Centre on July 20th.pecifically aimed at community or voluntary groups, Social Media Surgeries provide free advice to organisations or people on how to set up their own websites, blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages or podcasts. As well as anything else digital that they may be interested in investigating.
Social Media Training, some reflections
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, PR, Policy, Technology, Twitter, cool
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering Totaal’s first large-scale Social Media Training session at Immage Studios in North East Lincolnshire. I have done many a one-on-one and small group session before but this one was a very different animal indeed.
All in all there were twelve different attendees and representatives from two different companies, [...]
Google Buzz, what’s all the fuss about?
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Technology, Twitter
Fresh on the heels of the release of Google Wave, billed as a panacea to the problems of communicating by email but in reality just a neat little collaborative tool, Google have released their next product, Buzz. As is becoming customary with Google, the hyperbole was again laid on with a trowel, this time they [...]
Twitter plans to finally put squeeze on clients
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Technology, Twitter
It’s always been a bit of a puzzler for me quite why twitter let their client ecosystem blossom so enthusiastically, I blogged about it before a couple of times speculating here about whether they were finally making the move against clients with their lists feature.
Alex Payne, an engineer at Twitter and head of the API [...]
Is Twitter’s star finally losing its twinkle?
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter
It’s pretty fair to say that 2009 was “The Year of the Tweet”. There’s hardly a TV or Radio show or media personality that doesnt have a twitter account. In some cases there are several, with excellent spoofing of some ’slebs too. In 2009 Twitter users went from five to thirty million users and between [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the single biggest threat to the Social Web
Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by benmckenna in All Posts, Technology, Twitter
Chances are that, if you know anybody involved in web development, design or usability, you will already be aware of this but I’m still amazed by how many aren’t. The biggest threat that the Social Web faces today isn’t authoritarian governments, lack of broadband availability or even piracy or hackers. This pervasive threat actually comes [...]
Twitter Lists, Twitter’s first strike against clients?
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Apps, Twitter
Interesting developments from Twitter with the recent announcement of the release of their Lists beta feature. For those of you with enough of a life not to care about these things, lists is a feature currently only available to “selected users” that allows you to select lists of your favourite Tweeters. So what form will [...]
How to Tweet – Basic tips on how to get the most from Twitter
Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Twitter
I’ve blogged a few times before on some of the wonderful, versatile things Twitter can be used for and happily I’ve had some rather pleasant feedback from people saying I’ve opened their eyes to one or two things about it. One thing that still interests me though, is that people are still using Twitter as [...]
Top Ten Parliamentary Punch-Ups
Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by benmckenna in All Posts, Twitter
Conflict in the Commons? Scuffle in the Senate? Altercation in the Assembly? Conflab in the Council or Fisticuffs spoiling your Filibuster? Hot on the heels of the terminally amusing fracas in the South Korean parliament Totaal is proud to bring you the Top Ten Parliamentary Punch-Ups.
I cant take the credit for this though, this is [...]