Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’

Monitoring Google Sidewiki comments

Posted in Uncategorized on November 20th, 2009 by Sue Davis – Be the first to comment

Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page.

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Social media and SEO part 1

Posted in Uncategorized on October 21st, 2009 by Sue Davis – Be the first to comment

Here’s an introduction to SEO and social media, sometimes known as Web 2.0.

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Twitter as a barometer of web readers’ vocabulary

Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009 by Sue Davis – Be the first to comment

Twitter is all the rage at the moment with everyone from the NHS to Number 10 Downing Street using this tool to communicate.

But recently the tool looks like becoming useful for web writers. Until early May the only way to find out what people were ‘tweeting’ about was to go to Monitter or Twitter search. Now you can see instantly what the most frequently used words are right now, just by going to your own Twitter home page. read more »

Writing for Twitter

Posted in Uncategorized on April 3rd, 2009 by Sue Davis – Be the first to comment

So what’s all the fuss about Twitter?

Well Google is in the early stages of a dance with Twitter’s owners. Looks like they may buy Twitter. There are about 60,000 tweets (single messages) sent every hour. Stephen Fry, The Guardian and the UK Government use it to send updates.

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Events and social tagging

Posted in Uncategorized on February 18th, 2009 by Sue Davis – 1 Comment

When organising a conference, agree a tag that can be used when delegates categorise their blog posts, slides, photos and videos. Then people will be able to easily find the related information later using tag searching sites such as Technorati. read more »