The excellent Read/WriteWeb (a blog that anyone interested in communications and technology should be reading daily) is running coverage of the Future of Web Apps 2007 Conference in London, and yesterday in their post one line really made me stop. Under the section entitled ‘The Mobile Web’ they note that:
A very interesting fact that is [...]
If you have worked through your communications strategy, evaluated all of your options and channels and the most appropriate course of action is a social media solution (blog, wiki or podcast), then here are some points that you may want to consider before you rush off and launch.
Please note, I am only covering corporate [...]
Yesterdays post about social tools in newspapers got me thinking about the prevalence of RSS feeds in the government namespace. I was saying that RSS was now mainstream and that it was only a matter of time before all our feed stats were going through the roof. Mmm, not quite.
I did a quick whip around [...]
I posted before Chrsitmas about the launch of the new websites for the Herald and the Dominion Post. At the time I focussed on the fact that Fairfax, in keeping with their strategy for their Australian papers, had not implemented RSS feeds on the site. I charitably described it this way:
Smart move. Why would you [...]
This morning both the New Zealand Herald and the Stuff websites (the Fairfax empire) were reskinned, and in the case of Stuff, relaunched with a new CMS. So, after a quick once over, what are my initial impressions?
Well, the obvious point to make is that they both look remarkably similar. Both have gone for CSS [...]
There has been quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere about the social media release and its subsequent adoption by some of the big PR firms. And, as some agencies here are starting to use microformatted information in other applications, I thought it might be interesting to look at what these standards mean for [...]
If you were in any doubt about the emerging importance of blogging in business communications, then this announcement reported on Wired should effectively put those doubts to rest.
I think that it is safe to assume that we have reached the tipping point when you see these sorts of announcements. An Enterprise Edition of Wordpress strikes [...]
Russell Brown said, during his talk last Friday – and I am paraphrasing because, unlike the more diligent among you, I wasn’t taking notes (if you want to write in and correct the record, please do) – that he thought RSS was going to play a huge part of the future of the web. I [...]
