A great way to engage with your audience as a blogger, is to participate in the discussions going on at various established message boards. Some of the guys over at the BikeRadar forum started a thread about blogging, and people started to share their links and ask for advice etc. I’m currently experimenting with Scoop.It [...]
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ScarletFire has a facebook page
If you’re on Facebook, you can get notifications in your timeline every time there’s a new post here on www.scarletfire.co.uk - handy!
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What is twitter saying about #strava?
I’ve become quite interested in the Strava debate since learning about recent events in San Francisco. Are people really so influenced by apps, to the point where they’ll engage in risky behaviour? The latest tweets using the #strava hashtag might offer some insight into how people are engaging with Strava. What do YOU think? Is [...]
READ MORE »When will North Wales emerge from the digital dark ages?
I recently helped organise a conference which was attended by 120 professionals from across Health, Social Services, Education, the Police, and various vol orgs. Compare this group to the average Joe Public, and you’d probably see a higher level of education, higher earnings than the local average, and better access to things like smartphones. OK, [...]
READ MORE »Managing conferences or training events with Eventbrite.
Remember years ago when Tomorrow’s World (BBC TV) told us how amazing the future would be, that we’d all have robot cleaners and loads more spare time because computers would handle everything for us? It all seemed, and still seems so far away. Computers have largely resulted in people spending a massive proportion of their [...]
READ MORE »A conference on the edge of chaos – welcome to the Unconference
We’ve all been there. Dull conferences, where row upon row of plastic seats face plastic speakers intent on reading their slides verbatim, turning their backs to the audience at intervals, inadvertently producing the effect of one of those old fashioned rotating Leslie speakers. We have to resort to minor forms of self harm just to [...]
READ MORE »5 tips to successfully implementing Yammer in #localgov
Anyone who has ever worked in a large organisation knows that one problem raised at almost every brainstorming session about anything is – Communication. It’s always there, and nobody is ever surprised by its presence. It’s the elephant everyone’s ok talking about, because everybody knows internal communications suck. Corporate centres continue to cling to traditional [...]
READ MORE »Dragging local authorities into the 21st century.
I work for a local authority adjacent to the one I live in. Just recently I’ve been trying to promote the use of tools like facebook pages and twitter accounts within my own organisation, but sometimes it can seem like some people think social media means sharing a copy of your newsletter with a [...]
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