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Suw: Spending 20 minutes a day writing nice things about people you care about reduces your cholesterol. Kev and I should have cholesterol in minus figures, then. I wonder how blogging nice things stacks up against blogging nasty things?
Daily Archives: July 2, 2007
Scary monsters: Does social software have fangs?
Last week I gave a tech talk at Google about social software within business, the difficulties we face when introducing it to people, and tactics for fostering adoption. I spoke for about 25 minutes, and then we had a lively Q&A for half an hour. I will admit that I was quite nervous about it – I mean, there are lots of very smart people at Google, and I wasn’t sure if what I was saying was just teaching grannie to suck eggs. I think about 20 – 30 people turned up, and most of them seemed to enjoy it, so I can only hope it was interesting and useful for them.
Google videoed it and had it up online in no time at all, so here it is:
If you don’t want to watch it all, then Steph Booth took written notes to go with it.
Thanks very much to Kevin Marks for organising it for me.
Live blogging from Kuala Lumpur
I’m at the IFRA workshop on citizen media in Kuala Lumpur. I’m live blogging for the Guardian’s media blog about the sessions. I’m helping with the workshops with digital pioneer Steve Yelvington, multimedia guru Robb Montgomery and designer Peter Ong.
As a journalist, I’m very interested in some of the comments by the Malaysian journalists in the audience. They say that the region has historically been under regimes that exert so much control over their people that citizens are reluctant to express themselves. Also, the ruling party in Malaysia is setting up a group of 500 cyber-writers to counter the claims of bloggers. Fascintating stuff. I love finding out what is going on around the world, not just my little part of it.