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Posted on 12th February 2010
“I have no friends” – A practical hands on social media workshop
When: 11th of March, 7 – 9pm at Lewes Werks Cost: £20 + VAT for cowerkers, £25 + VAT for everyone else Presented by Rosie Sherry and Emma Wallace Introduction A 2 hour hands on and practical guide to using the web. You’ve signed up to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. You have a website. But what next? Aimed at individuals and small
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Posted on 15th September 2009
Blogging with Wordpress whilst using delicious
Some things are made easy with Wordpress. Unschool.me has been a bit of a side project. Just a blog to capture notes and buzz at the moment. I had started to collect information on things related to unschool.me on delicious by tagging them with ‘unschool‘. Through an RSS widget they would then update automatically on the right
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Posted on 10th September 2009
Got a business? Need the social web?
Schux are collaborating with Egg Box Marketing to bring a lovely, practical and down to earth series of workshops for using the social web for your own business benefit. It’s called Doing Business on the Social Web. First event is on the 24th of September at Lewes Werks.
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Posted on 29th August 2009
Empty forums are a no-no
There are certain things that should be done before officially launching a community. One of the most basic things is to not launch with a ghost community – ie – where there is no visible activity. This will not give people the confidence to join. I’m not sure how long Virgin Money Giving has been around,
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Posted on 30th June 2009
Old models can come back
It’s interesting to read that Dave Eggers is enthusiastic about print making a come back. As long as newspapers offer less each day- less news, less great writing, less graphic innovation, fewer photos- then they’re giving readers few reasons to pay for the paper itself. With our prototype, we aim to make the physical object so
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Posted on 21st June 2009
Copycats
My younger son (aged 4) is such a copycat. He looks up to his older brother (aged 5) in adoration and will often mimic his every word and move. You may think this copycat syndrome is just for kids. It is clearly not. It’s visible all around the social web. It’s not a bad thing to adopt
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Posted on 20th June 2009
Shepherding Passionate Communities
Heather Champ, Director of Community for Flickr, shares her experiences in shepherding passionate communities at HICK Tech 2008 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. In this keynote presentation Ms. Champ shows you how Flickr has learned their most valuable lessons: Own it; Don’t wait; Change is hard; Avoid creating super-villains; and Embrace chaos
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Posted on 15th June 2009
You shouldn’t have to ask
Are you doing something good or perhaps something that people (apparently) like. Perhaps you have a cool online community. Or a very useful blog. Or sell some nice products nicely package with top customer service. Should you have to ask people to spread the word for you? I recently got asked to RT (retweet) something on Twitter.
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Posted on 7th June 2009
Don’t forget the real world
The world often gets too carried away with the latest and coolest website getting all the attention. Facebook worked well initially because it was friends you already knew that you were connecting to. It probably doesn’t work as well (or is used very differently) for those that use it to keep in touch with anyone and
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Posted on 2nd June 2009
When Things Are Easy
10 years ago it was hard and expensive to create any decent kind of online presence. Now everything is so easy and minimal technical know how is needed to get things started. I remember working on projects that seemed to take forever to agree on, create and launch. They cost tens of thousands to make. The
