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Cloud Computing - Pie in the Sky?
For those that don't know, cloud computing is the new black, or it is for today's stressed out IT departments under huge pressure to allow businesses to ...
Eyebrows Raise The Game on Viral Advertising
Last year, Cadburys scored a huge hit with their ad featuring a gorilla drumming along to the Phil Collins’s track In The Air Tonight, resulting in a 9% ...
Facebook learns a lesson about the power of social networks
The issue of privacy and control led to a rude awakening for Facebook last week when the company realized that what they thought was a minor change to their ...
Twitter ye not - microblogging comes of age
The day that Jeremy Clarkson started tweeting may have spelt the end of cool for the world’s most loved micro-blogging site, but the growth shows no signs of ...
Tweeting in the public sector
I know the world (and this blog) probably doesn’t need another article about Twitter, but in the wake of the Working Together white paper, I found myself ...
The Digital World of Comic Relief
By the end of Saturday night, this year’s Comic Relief had raised a record breaking £57, 809, 938. The largest amount ever in its 21-year history, and with the ...
Managing Reputation Online - a Pipe Dream?
As Benjamin Franklin said: "It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it". Reputation is becoming ever more difficult ...
Government 2.0
Like me, you were probably told as a child that your two ears and one mouth should be used in that proportion. Web 1.0 ignored the old homily and used the ...
The rise and fall of UGC?
It was only last year that user-generated content was going to take over the world. Digital content production tools were plummeting in cost and a new ...
Government Welcomes Feedback but is it ready to hear what people have to say?
In his recent Working Together report, Gordon Brown announced he intends to encourage Amazon and e-bay style feedback and commenting around public services ...
Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink (check the date!)
The Guardian has run a great story on its planned switch over to Twitter. Now what was today’s date again..?
Cloud Gaming - Evolution or Revolution?
The Game Developer’s Conference ’09 which is being held in San Francisco this week is a great place to see big press releases, product demos and other juicy ...
The History of the Future
Ever wondered how we got here? Who recommended what, and when? Who said mobile phones were the future, and narrowband was out? Ross Ferguson, Interactive ...
The Information Age Comes of Age
One trend has emerged over the past couple of months that has led me to think the much vaunted ‘information age’ may truly be upon us. At the start of ...
Yammering on
We’ve been trialling Yammer within our team for the last few weeks and the initial feedback is good. If you haven’t come across Yammer, it’s like a private ...
Social Media Marketing
If you’ve had an interest in the development of the web over the last couple of years, you will have heard the hype about the potential of social media and Web ...
Twitter TV
No longer content with remaining in the digital space as one of the world’s fastest growing social networking destinations, Variety recently reported that the ...
Digital Mourning
The death of a superstar is a barometer of our society. Michael Jackson’s death, announced overnight in the UK, is a global news story. But it has also been ...
Innovating Democracy
Later this week, the winner of the final round of Washington DC’s “Apps for Democracy – Community Edition” will be unveiled. It’s another competition run by ...
Surely you must know by now?
It seems like everyone is making their own version of ‘Shift Happens’ these days. As I blogged recently, these animated videos are now being used to promote ...
Labour's Twitter Tsars
In the first of a series of posts throughout the party conference season, and as a result of ongoing press coverage about politicians using social media to ...
Engaging with the Future
In late October, Barnet Council voted their ‘Future Shape’ model of service provision into reality. Dubbed by the media as the easyJet service model, it’s one ...
"Google Rescued My Potato Harvest"
September 2009 saw the completion of the undersea, high-speed broadband cable connection to East Africa and the prospect of the world’s next communications ...
Making an exhibition of yourself
Many may think that before YouTube, video online was restricted to that of a strictly corporate, or adult, nature. However you’d be wrong.
Planning is good - Beta is better
As a consultant working mostly with government, I am used to things going, shall we say, not always exactly to plan.
What's the real impact of Social Media?
Is social media really changing the face of business and public services? Where are the best examples of its use? And most importantly - is there life after ...
Eating Digital
I’m a big foodie, and as one would expect a bit of a tech-head. I also, love visiting markets, especially food ones, however I’ve got a bit bored of most of ...
The data is free - now what?
What will the freeing up of Government data by data.gov.uk mean? Jonathan Akwue has an idea...
The virtues of virtual goods
Virtual goods aren't just smoke and mirrors, but are good for the environment, and longer lasting, argues Johan Hogsander.
'Doing' words
Twitter is one of the best ways of building a picture of your audience’s activities - Morgan Holt gives an insight into how to do it.