Don’t call me a project manager

I hate the term “project management” with a passion.

That might come as a surprise to those who know that I am currently “managing” a large and commercially important web project at work. And not as a surprise to those who know how much I hate bureaucracy and admin as a general rule.

But allow me to [...]

Moving and sharing

Many years ago, the best you could do to connect your site to another site was through adding links. Plain old hyperlinks to other web sites – the stuff that made the web the web.

And then things became a little fancier and you could host a form on your site to allow people to send [...]

Why are you following me

There are weird goings on in the land of twitter.

In particular, it seems that recently every man and his dog has started following me. Now I’m not going to get excited and think they know something I don’t – or worry that “those photos” have been published in some dodgy tabloid somewhere.

Instead, it appears to [...]

Life is tweet

I’ve been spending a bit of time this week getting my head around Twitter.

I read somewhere recently that its the fastest growing website at the moment so I wanted to figure out how it works and why it is so popular – and also how it really differs from social networks like Facebook.

And how organisations [...]

Why I write a blog

Lately I have been spending as much time talking about why I write my blog as I do actually writing it. Its interesting – I am having these conversations with all sorts of people – old friends, current and past work mates, people I meet for the first time, even family members.

Some people are generally [...]

3 new social media friends

HTML5, microformats and next generation search – 3 things which you should probably become acquainted with this year if you work in the area of social media or web 2 development.

Why? Because they are crucial to driving forward their adoption.

Peter Kim recently did some research into Social Media Predictions for 2009 – here is his [...]

Its still about the content

A while ago, I bought one of those Creative VADO videocams. Really cool gadget, great for creating short clips and publishing them to the likes of YouTube for sharing.

If you have good content to film, of course. And that’s the problem with user-generated content. The web is filled with rubbish – videos of pets (like [...]