Joe's Jottings

Tagged: personal-and-group-networking

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not necessarily...

· facebook, privacy, twitter, blogs-and-blogging, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff, psychology

Long before it was the title of a movie, it was a fairly well known saying.  In the UK it was more likely to be 'What happens in Blackpool, stays in Blackpool', or, as time passed, what happened in Es…

Garden Party...

· personal-and-group-networking, personal-development, personal-stuff, psychology

I've always been one of the world's great hoarders...one of those folks who hangs on to things because they may one day be useful, one who starts something and then has to sweat cobs to get it finishe…

Am I a twit not to Twitter?

· online-communities, personal-and-group-networking, software-development, technology

OK....I remember a year or so ago saying i'd never join Facebook, and then making myself look a pudding within a month or so when i started using Facebook to keep me in touch with friends after I stop…

Facebook - fool if you think it's over?

· facebook, social-networks, viral-marketing, online-communities, personal-and-group-networking

I came across two articles today which are related - one informing us that Facebook had finally made it to number 1 in a league of social networking sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/0…

Salad Bowl or Melting Pot?

· community-building, online-communities, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

The other day I was reading an old favourite of mine 'The Networking Book', by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps http://www.netage.com/pub/books/NetBook/netbook.html In one chapter an interesting obs…

Online Culture and the Law of Two Feet

· community-building, online-communities, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

Well, after 4 years I recently left an Internet Forum which I'd grown very attached to.  The reason I left was pretty straightforward to me, and in my 'Bye Bye' post I simply commented that I was leav…

The Bus Book - w/c 24th March - The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work

· bromley-by-bow, mawson, social-enterprise, community-building, literature, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

Andrew Mawson (now a Cross Bencher in the House of Lords) has written a very important book with this work.  It chronicles his experiences in Bromley-by-Bow, an impoverished area of East London, from …

Will no one think about the children...

· bebo, censorship, facebook, morality, social-issues, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff, technology

I'm a big fan of 'The Simpsons' and in one episode there is a morally outraged female character who keeps screaming the expression 'Will no one think about the children' whenever something crops up. I…

Reluctantly joining Facebook....

· facebook, networking, community-building, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

Sigh..... That it should come to this.  Unfortunately a group I belong to is going to be using Facebook, and given that I'm supposed to be the IT guy, I am expected to know how it works. So, I've regi…