del.icio.us links for 17-22 October 2008

October 22, 2008 in Bookmarks

links for 2008-10-22

• Tom Reynolds – public sector blogging pioneer
  Jeremy Gould offers some genuine nuggets of goodness about the power of blogging in the public sector after meeting with blogging ambulance driver Tom Reynolds, who is also wonderful to follow on Twitter.
  (tags: blogging socialmedia publicsector)
• Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
  Don’t bother starting a blog, says Wired: blogspace, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. I don’t agree – wonder where Wired’s been hanging out? Seems to be missing all the good stuff.
  (tags: web2.0 twitter socialnetworking socialmedia facebook blogs blogging)

links for 2008-10-20

• Celebrity Twitter Users
  Twitter references seem to be popping up everywhere, from news shows to sitcoms such as The Big Bang Theory. And now Stephen Fry and Britney Spears arrive joining the likes of Barak Obama and Star Trek star Wil Wheaton twittering the day away.
  (tags: twitter socialmedia)
• BBC | Prosecutor’s security state fears
  Outgoing chief prosecutor warns against “the paraphernalia of paranoia” and “medieval delusions” after the home secretary pushes for a database of mobile and internet traffic.
  (tags: terrorism security information)
• Down Economy Boosts Blogging
  A recession is a good time to build your personal brand by blogging. Or, for that matter, if you suddenly find yourself with a lot of time on your hands …
  (tags: blogging blog)
• Social Media vs. Knowledge Management
  KM and SM look very similar on the surface, but are actually radically different at multiple levels, both cultural and technical, and are locked in an undeclared cultural war for the soul of Enterprise 2.0.
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia information knowledge)

links for 2008-10-18

• Twitter Power Tools
  What the best dressed community and communications professionals should know and be using if they want to be practising PR 2.0
  (tags: twitter web2.0 socialnetworking socialmedia tools twitter-tools)
• Qwitter is about to break up a lot of twitter ‘friends’
  You’ll never be able to break up without the other person knowing, ever again … And yes, it really can affect you when you find out you’ve been ‘dumped!
  (tags: twitter)

links for 2008-10-17

• Feeling Overwhelmed by Social Media and Web 2.0? – Here Are 5 Tips For You
  Bloggers are increasingly feeling the pressure to have their fingers in lots of pies at once and are feeling overwhelmed by the choice and effort needed to ‘keep up’.
  (tags: blogs blogging socialmedia web2.0)