#begoodbesocial – my take. 27 Oct Not long back from the first meeting of #begoodbesocial at The Melting Pot in Edinburgh. If you work in the non-profit arena in Scotland and you haven’t already heard about this then get over to the website and ha…
I really like Malcolm Gladwell’s new piece on digital political organizing. It’s got an excellent structure, alternating scenes of the lunch counter protests of the 1960s with ideas about the loose social groups that activists attempt to catalyze …
There’s plans brewing for a Scottish third sector social media get-together. The event will bring together people for non-profit orgs, charities and social enterprises interested in social media for social good. I’ll update this blog soon with tic…
via justcoz.org Yeah you heard right. Donate your tweets. JustCoz have developed a tool which I’ve had daydreams about for ages but I haven’t had the time to do anything about. Put simply, it allows you to donate a tweet a day to your favourite ca…
Most of you have probably heard of Conversationlist before. For those of you who spend your time worrying about more important things here’s the official blurb: A “conversationlist” is a Twitter list of the people that you talk to (and about) on T…
via untweeps.com I’ve recently come to the conclusion that my Twitter account needs a spring clean. I’m following far too many people who have the social skill-set of a tin of dog food and far too many people who haven’t tweeted for ages. I’ve dec…
I recently discovered the joy of Spotify collaborative playlists. As the name suggests the new(ish) feature allows you to create a Spotify playlist with your friends. It quickly occurred to me that it would be great to start a collaborative playli…
via media140.com All the interesting third sector conferences and events happen when I’m busy. This isn’t paranoia, this is fact. Media140 Third Sector takes place in London as part of Social Media Week. The event will showcase non-profit organisa…
I discovered TweepML a while back, it’s a great tool if you want to quickly follow a group of people on twitter who all share the same area of expertise or interest as you. The site has now added the ability to follow all members of a Twitter list…
