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

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.

Bright Beehive

It is with great pleasure, pride and relief that I can say that my company’s website is up and running. I set up the company Bright Beehive with Nick O’Doherty in May. We aim to provide companies assistance in engaging with social computing – wikis, blogs, and social networking websites. Go to the website and have a look around. If you think of someone who is interested in this type of thing pass on the details. I’ll sort you out with a cup of tea.

Wikis In Plain English

Came across this again. Still a joy to watch. Surprised I haven’t blogged it before. Check it out.

What Is Web 2.0?

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based, i.e. You’d pay an agency tens of thousands of pounds to build you a website and then you’d leave it to go out of date immediately.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.

Wikis explained

With wikis everyone can have equal editorial rights to a document…

Pretend there is a meeting with Jack, Jill and Joan.

• Jack sends out the meeting invite and posts the agenda on the wiki. 
• Jill and Joan can then go in and ask for elaboration on the agenda.

That means that when the meeting takes place everyone is better versed to what the meeting is about and has a better sense of inclusion before it has begun.After the meeting Jack then types up the minutes and draws up an action list with deadlines but he is a bit confused about one or two areas that were discussed in the meeting. Instead of loads of emails being sent about the place Jill and Joan go into the wiki and elaborate in that one page of the wiki. This saves time and increases both productivity and efficiency.

Now what don’t you understand?