Category Archives: Social Web

  • Social tools & web apps for work

    Off the back of my recent invitation to speak on a panel at the Office 2.0 conference, I decided it was about time I went public about all the online tools that I & my team have introduced to NESTA. Here’s a quick runthrough: Our Intranet is a structured (hybrid) wiki powered by ThoughtFarmer… We’ve [...]

  • Getting all emotional over Goodness 2.0

    My personal favourite moments from NMK’s Goodness 2.0 event, written for the NESTA blogs. Goodness 2.0 was all about how charities, non-profits and NGOs can make use of 2.0 tools and techniques. My main take-away from the event was about the power of the social web to share with the world some truly amazing stories, [...]

  • Social innovation, or gimmick?

    A post for NESTA which comments on the recent political adoption of things like YouTube as a campaigning tool. Today French politics joined the USA in adopting ‘social web’ media as a platform for running political campaigns & debates – only the French are using Second Life instead of YouTube. And here on these shores, [...]