Today, Google announced Google Buzz which is their play into the social web.
Here’s a look at how it works.
On the face of it, the simplicity of it seems similar to a microblogging tool such as twitter (you have a space to write your update). However, it is embedded in the gmail interface,  making it easy [...]

LocalGovCamp, an unconference for local government,  happened this last weekend (Saturday 20th June) – what an astonishing turnout -more than 130 people from Local Govt came along on a Saturday to talk about the future of local government, citizen engagement, smarter working and more…
Here is an interview by @davidwilcox with @carlhaggerty and @robgray (me) at [...]

I found this great wordpress plugin called WPTouch from Brave New Code which automatically creates an iPhone interface for your wordpress blog.

It’s brilliantly designed, clean and also shows the number of comments for each post.
You can easily browse categories, search and subscribe to RSS feeds directly from your iPhone.
If you are browsing this from your [...]

These days, if I’m attending an event related to social media or innovation, pretty much everyone there is on twitter. Therefore the only thing they need in order to contact me is my twitter name… so my cards now look a lot simpler. I also carry “normal” cards just in case but I’ve got a [...]

I recently did a short piece of work with the exec team of a large global organisation that is very knowledge centric. Although they have a desire to become more innovative, their sheer size means that this is a long-term undertaking.  At the beginning of this project, we were gathering some information and ideas about [...]

On Nov 13th we had a launch event for blueKiwi 2009 in Paris. I was amazed that we got 400 registrations in the first 2 weeks, with place for 200 people. Anyway, a bit of deft eventmanship from the marketing folks meant we had a packed venue and loads of buzz…
We had 2 great opening [...]

2.0hhhh
These days we are flooded by a plethora of 2.0 stuff aren’t we?…. Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, BI 2.0 Outsourcing 2.0,eCommerce 2.0, Resourcing 2.0, Project Management 2.0, Recruitment 2.0, Jake 2.0, KM 2.0, Library 2.0, Health 2.0, President 2.0, Government 2.0, Retail 2.0, Search 2.0, Mobile 2.0, Lift Trucks 2.0, or why not buy a [...]

I included this short video in some presentations I did over the last few weeks. A few people have asked for this video, so here it is.
Basically it shows the people directory, with aggregated tags on the right hand side. I select the marketing tag, it finds all people with that tag. I then open [...]

What:
Groundswell from Harvard Business School Press, written by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff.
Summary:
This book does a good job of explaining “web 2.0″ and social media technologies, what the implications are for your organisation, and how to take advantage of them.
Who should read it
Business owners/CEOs, marketing people, communications people, entrepeneurs, and anyone who is interested in [...]