Posts Tagged 'RSS'

Want To Learn How To Use Social Media For Business Benefits?

Published November 6, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Want to know more about Twitter, Facebook, wikis, RSS, blogging and social bookmarking etc?I am running a workshop on November 17th called:

Social Business – Making sense of Social Media

Come if you would like to learn how to use social media for the good of your business, or even if you want to learn how social networking for personal benefit.

I will be joined by my Bright Beehive colleague Nick O’Doherty and the event is being put on as a joint collaboration with Idea Space. It should be good fun as well as hugely informative.

My other blog – Bright Beehive Blog – is a great source of information about this area. Click if you would like to become a fan of the Bright Beehive Page.

The Death Of Enterprise RSS? Was It Ever Born?

Published January 13, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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There is a very interesting conversation happening here about RSS in business. Whilst in PwC I found it shocking the amount of people who not only did not have their own RSS readers but did not know what RSS was!

So for all of you who surf the web going to your favourite websites every day I advise you have a look at this excellent video from Commoncraft.

What Is Web 2.0?

Published March 9, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Many of my friends don’t know what Web 2.0 is. Web 2.0 is basically the second generation of the web. The first generation was mostly broadcast based, i.e. You’d pay an agency tens of thousands of pounds to build you a website and then you’d leave it to go out of date immediately.

Web 2.0 incorporates funky features making it more rough and ready (and  therefore current). All this ensures that a website has less quality control some people argue but as Lee Bryant from Headshift says, “People take rough and ready more seriously than polished docs because they have authenticity.” Here’s some Web 2.0 characteristics:

  • Blogs – one writer or writing team. (Usually anyone can comment on a blog post).
  • Wikis – many writers/editors (e.g. wikipedia)
  • RSS – the wee orange button. Set this up with an RSS reader and the web will COME TO YOU!
  • Mashups – bit like things you hear on the radio like The Clash with a kid girl rapping over it except in web format.

There’s other characteristics also but that should do you. If you wanna read more try the ultimate Web 2.0 site here.

Social Media Tools In Business

Published March 5, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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Notes from Lee Bryant’s presentation from Headshift:

  • “Networking productivity trumps personal productivity” (I never caught who Lee was quoting).
  • Companies are good at managing documents.
  • Companies are not good at managing pre-documents. Wikis are.
  • People take rough’n'ready more seriously than polished docs cos  they have more authenticity.
  • Digital natives = the facebook and post-FB generation.
  • eLearning is great for a McJob.
  • Wikis and blogs are great for personal development.

Web 2.0 vs. Risk

Published March 5, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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As Euan Semple says “risk is the last bastion of IT”. It’s easier for risk to say no than it is to get them to do a bit of neck-putting-on-line and this is understandable. Today I was at the conference organised by David Gurteen called Web 2.0 and Beyond: Applying social and collaborative tools to business where I asked Headshift‘s Lee Bryant for ideas on how to get large organisations to adopt RSS and wikis more fully into their clunky-by-nature IT and business structures particularly around Risk. Lee advised to get board management onto the idea. The idea is not to get around Risk but to get the rules changed. Keep everyone happy. It makes for an easier life. (That was me talking at the end and not Lee).

Web 2.0: Tips On Getting Firms To Use Social Tools

Published March 5, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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  • Run pilots.
  • Create small.
  • Limit the invites to create mistique. (Think of how gmail is rolled out).
  • Better to give these tools and then deal with the risk afterwards.

Web 2.0: Tips On How To Get Management Staff On Board

Published March 5, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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Speak to the ones that are using Blackberrys and explain that wikis & RSS can do better and faster.

Euan Semple: Meeting Notes #1

Published February 27, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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I describe Euan Semple to my mother as the Steven Spielberg of my line of work. I don’t think she understands as I think she thinks that Steven Spielberg is a fiction writer. Anyway it saves me in having to big Euan up as a guru of social media.  (Actually Euan doesn’t even see himself as this).

Back in July 2007 I asked Euan to become my mentor to which I am very grateful that he agreed. Since then I have met him four times. All meeting have been very informal but nonetheless very invaluable. He has given me the inspiration to start this blog, draw up my ‘professional site‘ and do a few things in my work differently which I won’t go into. Here’s a very light summary of things I feel I can publish from our last meeting:

RSS

  • RSS is a great thing to have in any firm, especially if the service one provides is information.
  • The vast majority of information in any firm is not classified as “highly classified”.
  • “Risk is the last bastion of IT”.
  • It’s easier for risk to not agree to have something within the IT infrastructure than it is to push something through which may be a threat to a firm.

Blogging

  • “I see blogging as lobbing a pebble…”

My ‘Professional’ Site (here)

  • “Make it reflect who you are”.

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