Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Election Count 2.0 in Edinburgh

Friday, May 7th, 2010
Election map showing Twitter updates

Twitter Election Map

Over the past year or two there has been a palpable surge of interest in using Web 2.0 in the public sector, and in most cases that’s a very positive thing. The added value that such platforms can bring to the services we deliver is obvious, opening new channels of outreach and improving engagement and involvement.

During last night’s election count, the City of Edinburgh Council were putting Web 2.0 to marvellous use by keeping citizens bang up to date with progress of the count taking place over at Meadowbank Stadium.

The following is a summary of what the council did on the night.

More about Election Count 2.0 in Edinburgh

Hard lessons in social media: political suicide

Friday, April 9th, 2010

I’ve just updated my list of social media lessons learned the hard way with details of a Labour candidate who appears to have committed political suicide on Twitter.

Read more about Stuart MacLennan’s costly social media gaffe

2009 on the web – some retrospectives

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

As we glide gracefully out of the noughties, here are some of the best retrospectives of the past year on the web.

2009 on the web – some retrospectives

An afternoon with Brizzly

Monday, October 5th, 2009
The Brizzly logo

The Brizzly logo

Today I signed up for Brizzly, a new web-based client for Twitter which offers a very similar user interface to Twitter itself, but with lots of the added functionality which most of us have come to use on a daily basis. It recently featured as one of LifeHack’s 5 best Twitter Clients (alongside TweetDeck, Seesmic, Tweetie and DestroyTwitter), so I was keen to give it a spin.

Read more about my afternoon with Brizzly

Crashing twitter – the new PR weapon of choice?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

In reports about the recent row over the NHS and the comments made by ex-US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, some news agencies were quick to spot an angle – the fact that Twitter apparently couldn’t handle it.
Why crashing Twitter is becoming the Holy Grail of PR

Accessibility and social media – my presentation

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Those of you who read my overview of accessibility and social media back in June know that I spoke about the subject at the ScotWeb2 unconference. Liz Ayzan, from LGEO Research, has kindly posted a section of my talk to YouTube (also available via Liz’s blog post about the event). I thought (in keeping with the very theme of the talk) that I should offer a text alternative of that video. A full summary of the talk can still be found on my original overview (as linked above).

View the video and read the transcript of my presentation

Accessify Forum gets the Twitterbug

Monday, July 6th, 2009
Accessify Forum logo

Accessify Forum now on Twitter

Just hours after the original suggestion by fellow Accessify Forum moderator Jack Pickard, the popular accessibility discussion forum has now joined Twitter. You can follow the tweets over at @accessifyforum.

We’re currently developing policies to guide our usage of the account – the first of which is that we’ll be appending each tweet with initials to make it easy to identify the individual author. This is nicely aligned to some work I’m doing within my organisation, trying to define best practices and create policies for our use of Social Media. I’m currently working on a post summarising this work, with some links to useful policies already in existence, so stay tuned for that over the coming weeks.

For now, though, head over to www.accessifyforum.com to join the discussion, and don’t forget to follow @accessifyforum next time you’re on Twitter.

Accessibility and Social Media – an overview

Thursday, June 18th, 2009
My talk at Scotweb2

My presentation at ScotWeb2 - photo courtesy of Jadu

This post explores some of the issues that I plan to discuss with attendees at tomorrow’s ScotWeb2 event in Edinburgh, regarding the current state of accessibility on Social Media sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. I hope to have some interesting feedback to post here after tomorrow, so for now here’s an overview of the subject. I’ve also thrown in a few open questions to kick-start the discussion.

[Edit: see a summary of the event on the ScotWeb2 blog]

Read the rest of my introduction to Social Media accessibility

Twitter adds account verification

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Just days after my post on the risks of cybersquatting in Social Media, Twitter have annouced that they are beta-testing account verification.

According to the official statement, to “prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting with a ‘Verified Account’ feature [...] working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis.”

A verified account

An example of a verified Twitter account

Read more about Twitter Account Verification

Cybersquatting 2.0 – protecting your name in Social Media

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The rise and rise of Social Networking Sites has brought about new risks to an organisation’s online brand, but whilst my last post explored Web 2.0 mistakes which organisation could make themselves, another type of risk is what others may do with your brand if you don’t get there first, through Social Media Cybersquatting. The risks of cybersquatters in a Web 2.0 world