Tithing, an update and some perspectives on ‘doing good stuff’

Posted on 30. Sep, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology

Back in March I wrote a short blog post about the direction I was looking to take Totaal in as a company. In it I spoke about crowd-sourcing an ethical policy and the concept I called “tithing” where I give 10% of my time, roughly equating to half a day a week, to doing things [...]

These views are my own

Posted on 26. Aug, 2010 by in Blog, Policy, Technology, Twitter

The title to this blog appears, in one way or another, in the bio section of an alarming amount of profiles across the social web. You may have hardly noticed it or possibly just taken it for granted but it’s very illustrative of the current state of play in the relationship between society, work and [...]

Bradford’s first Social Media Surgery

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by in Blog, cool, Technology, Twitter

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.

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the single biggest threat to the Social Web

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by in Blog, 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 [...]

Future of Web Apps highlights (#fowa)

Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by in Apps, Blog

It’s official, Carsonified‘s excellent Future of Web Apps conference in London chewed me up, spat me out and landed me back in sunny Yorkshire. I’ve had a ball over the three days catching up with some friends and generally talking tech stuff with tech people. Really the only apt way to describe it would be [...]

So you’re thinking of having a Social Media Newsroom?

Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by in Blog, PR

There’s no doubt that nowadays Public Relations is getting exponentially harder, Social Media has opened up a new front in the world of PR and people are now joining the industry with a whole different skill set to those who have traditionally been drawn to the dark arts of mass relationship and media management. Personally [...]

Twitter style ads help Facebook buck the market trend

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by in Advertising, Blog

Facebook’s recent buzz has all been about their “Twittification”, reducing the former enjoyable randomness of Facebook to a homogenous Twitter feed. It’s caused all sorts of ructions and mutinies among users with the predictable Facebook groups being set up to demand that the system be scrapped and the norm returned to. Haha Facebook, now you [...]

Lee Bryant kicks off Reboot Britain with considerable aplomb

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by in Blog, cool

NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) are a pretty interesting organisation, they are a sort of Royal Society of the Arts for the digital age cum tech-think-tank, they work across all sectors promoting innovation. It’s a partnership body which, as I can identify from with in my time at Yorkshire Culture, [...]