Twitter has started its mass roll out of lists and I just created my first of public sector people (and hangers on) I follow. I laughed out loud when I clicked through to see I’d been already added onto 28 existing lists – and what those list titles are. According to some of my followers,Read… Read more »
Interview with me at LocalGovCamp Lincoln by Liz Azyan of LGEO Research. Post by me about the new group.
This is the video I shot (with hand-held Flash camera, someone tweeted about how I managed to keep my hand up for an hour) of one of Twitter’s creators, Blaine Cooke, visiting Teacamp, a gathering of Whitehall (London) webbies and hangers on. Cooke kindly spent a hour answering questions about Twitter – where it cameRead… Read more »
Cross posted from Online Journalism Blog, where I’ve been updating all day – find any further updates here. If the famous media gaggers, the libel law firm Carter-Ruck, scourge of Private Eye, thought they’d scored another famous victory (these guys are big on bragging) suppressing news they hadn’t reckoned with social media. #trafigura is asRead… Read more »
Public Sector Forums (PSF)’s Ian Cuddy reports that Worcestershire’s councils have gone with a ‘common look and feel’ policy (aka ‘standardised’). In the Twitter conversation it’s been pointed out that the common design fails some standards and a link to a policy document explaining what they’ve done in detail hasn’t yet been found (Cuddy isRead… Read more »
This is a really excellent reminder of a web basic, which is unfortunately often forgotten as websites add and add and add and in the process become bloated. “Think of your Web audience as lazy, selfish and ruthless,” said Michael Gold, West Gold Editorial principal quoting usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s apt description of today’s impatient,Read… Read more »
Image via Wikipedia I just got an email from a friend in Austria. Inspired by a post on LGBT Asylum News he wanted to make a donation to the Sex Workers Outreach Program (SWOP) in Nairobi. The people there are wonderful, and intelligent, and courageous and open-minded people indeed, and they deserve our help andRead… Read more »
Jakob Nielsen has noted that it’s now twenty years since he started what he calls the ‘discount usability movement’. This might be egging it a wee bit, I’m not sure there is such a ‘movement’ apart from that which Nielsen promotes. It’s true that major companies use discount usability tactics – I noted before howRead… Read more »
There’s been a great flurry of interest in local government webbie circles because a few councils have gone down the Google route of deliberately reducing homepage content and pushing search as the way to find what you’re looking for, what you want to do, what your task is. Lancashire’s Kevin Rainsbury told the lively threadRead… Read more »
17% of Twitter users vs. 12% of non-Twitter social media users had accessed social media from a washroom or toilet New Crowd Science survey And how many are male and missing their aim? 11% of Twitter users admitted to accessing social media while driving in the preceding 30 days, compared to only 5% of otherRead… Read more »