Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category.
June 3, 2010, 18:49
Thailand-based author Christopher G. Moore has commented on last night’s Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) event “Thailand in the Eyes of Others”. Moore reports that both the all-Thai panel and the questioners in the audience completely ignored the role of new media in the recent troubles in Bangkok:-
“The evening was mainly a Thai critique on the international TV news about how the Thais in political conflict were presented to an international audience. In particular, the panel, as were Thai questioners, were highly critical of TV coverage by CNN and BBC. [...] The digital world was largely ignored [...] Thousands of images, videos and commentary reached a larger world through the Internet.
“What Thailand in May 2010 has demonstrated is that news that shape international public opinion is no longer limited to TV network news. News coverage has expanded far beyond TV and the traditional print media. The old way of gathering, reporting, accessing and, indeed through comments, participating in the news has fundamentally changed.”
Continue reading ‘All Eyes on Thailand … but not Via New Media?’ »
January 13, 2010, 17:59
Barack Obama’s fiercest rivals in the race to the White House have still not updated their LinkedIn profiles nearly one-year (51 weeks) since the historic inauguration of the 44th President of the United States.
Despite a fairly impressive new job title, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is still “Candidate at Hillary Clinton for President”:-
And if you were to believe their LinkedIn profiles, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin are still in contention for the top jobs!
Continue reading ‘Presidential Also-Rans Forget their LinkedIn Profiles’ »
October 21, 2009, 18:09
This story proves that one doesn’t need a trillion dollars to mix it online with the big boys in your industry!
The ‘Responsible Tourism Guide to the Mekong’ at ExploreMekong.org/responsible has won the 2009 Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in the website category. And it cost little more than US$1,000 to design and build.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement (ACE) Project developed the site as part of its technical assistance to ASEAN- and Mekong-region tourism cooperation and integration.
Continue reading ‘Small-Budget Website Branded “Gold-Class”’ »
March 24, 2009, 17:32
“Launched in October 2008, Global Reporter is an interactive Social Networking site Where YOU report and comment on current events. Global Reporter’s goal is to bring users from around the world together so they can easily express their ideas on global and local issues by sharing original videos, photos and text reports.” … from their About Us page.
I like this upstart competitor to CNN’s “iReport” and I am proud to host their advertisement on this site. Visit Global Reporter by clicking “citizen journalism” under “CHECK OUT” near the top of the grey column to the right.
November 15, 2008, 13:48
To suggest that social classification systems will replace formal traditional classification on the web is to imply that there is no place on the web for bodies of professional, scientific, or other specialised knowledge that possess standardised nomenclature critical for mutual understanding.
Conversely, those who would argue that social tagging has no place in highly specialised fields are being short-sighted. Clearly there is a place for both traditional and social classification systems, and indeed hybrids, on the web.
Shirky proposes conditions in which formal classification systems work well and are necessary.
Continue reading ‘Social Vs Traditional Classification: It Can Be Both’ »
November 10, 2008, 18:00
The goal of any organisation’s communications team is to continuously inform stakeholders of activities, initiatives and the benefits of new and existing products. But how do they know they’re being heard?
Continue reading ‘Why Step into Cyberspace?’ »
November 7, 2008, 13:02
The virtual networking possibilities of Web 2.0 can supplement the networking benefits of a real-world event, the scheduling of which will unlikely suit everybody. And it can give the event greater longevity in the minds of at least some of the participants.
Continue reading ‘Events: e-Fashionably Late’ »
November 1, 2008, 14:13
A few days ago there was an interesting discussion on LinkedIn’s “Travel 2.0″ group about what the buzzword “Web 2.0″ really means and how useful it is.
Here I adapt my own contribution to that discussion:-
Tim O’Reilly, who originally coined the term in 2004, said Web 2.0 is “a transformative force that’s propelling companies across all industries towards a new way of doing business characterized by user participation, openness, and network effects”.
“Web 2.0” is essentially a more interactive version of “Web 1.0”, allowing users to not only retrieve information, but also react to it, contribute to it, syndicate it, tag it, bookmark it, define it, control it, and create it.
Elements of Web 2.0 existed before 2004 and even before the dot com crash in 2001. In fact, many of the survivors of the bursting of the bubble had already woken up to the benefits of O’Reilly’s “user participation, openness, and network effects”.
Continue reading ‘2.0 Wit Web 2.0’ »
