Found/interesting: 28 Dec to 5 Feb

Look what I found interesting:

Why I’m going dark for purdah – Steph explains why he won’t be blogging during the election period. (I won’t be writing about work stuff during that time either for the same reasons, but intend to resume blogging about other interests and this could be a good time to do it).
Richard [...]


How to read minds and influence people

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Knowing what your customers are thinking is the first step towards making them happy. But how do you know what’s in their heads (without being Derren Brown)?
I’m some way closer to being able to read my website users’ minds than I was this time last week – thanks to two unrelated events which turned out [...]


Teacamp this Thursday

Just a reminder that there’s a Teacamp this Thursday at 4pm for anyone interested in networking with the Govwebbies.
As usual it’s at Cafe Zest, upstairs in House of Fraser on Victoria Street.
This promises to be a good ‘un including a run-through by Jenny from MoJ on the great stuff they’ve been doing using RSS readers [...]


Found/interesting: 6-14 Jan

Have a load of links on me.

Blimey @joswinson thanks @tom_watson – Simon Dickson notes a first as Parliamentary business spills over onto Twitter.
CivicSurf » DFID Blog Coaching – The DFID bloggers experiment is proving its value, and growing.
The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance – Denial > microblogging. I think I’m on the return path [...]


Definitive list of commercial listening tools

Mashable has this list of the top ten reputation tracking tools worth paying for.
Re-blogged here for those who enjoyed my four methods and 40 tools for doing the same thing for free.


Look what I found: 18 – 21 November

Look what I found interesting. Maybe you will too.

We Are Media – Beth Kanter’s crowd-sourced social media toolkit for nonprofits is full of useful tips.
How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter – I loved these Twitter tips from Guy Kawasaki so much I re-tweeted them instantly using Twitthat, which is my pick of the bunch.
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Four methods and 40 free tools for listening… continued

There are hundreds of tools you *could* use to monitor social media sites for discussions about your stuff. So how do you choose?
In this and a previous post, I’ve rounded up 40 of the best free tools, and suggested that, despite the bewildering choice, there are only four ways of putting those tools together in [...]


Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 30 October to 9 November

Stuff I’ve bookmarked recently…

How to Change the World Using Social Media – An inspiring article on the concept of ’social proof’ (or herd mentality) as relates to social media.
Thirteen Blog Clichés – A fun article but seriously good advice to take on board yourself if you blog, and pass onto clients for corporate blogs back [...]