19 January 2010 – 2:25 PM
There are currently 7771 members of the Facebook group “NoBonus4RBS“, started by Billy Bragg.
Let’s watch it fly and fly.
RATM wasn’t the first successful Facebook group-based campaign (see HSBC’s student overdraft charges, for instance). But I think it is a good model to emulate.
As I said here about song-based campaigns, negative campaigns can work (by that [...]
9 December 2009 – 1:06 PM
Remember the recent All Wales Convention? Yesterday they sent me this message via Facebook:
Diolch am ymaelodi a’r Grwp hwn. Gan fod yr Adroddiad wedi ei gyhoeddi bellach, rydym wedi cadw cofnod o gynnwys y Grwp Gweplyfr a’i ddirwyn i ben.
Thanks for joining the Group. Since the Report has now been published, we have kept a [...]
11 November 2009 – 12:14 PM
I went to a public meeting at the Assembly buildings in Cardiff last night, which was a chance to meet Wales’ new Cross-Party Digital Group and have a discussion to answer the question:
“How can we make better use of new media and digital technology to engage with the people of Wales?”.
The members of the group [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in politics, wales
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Also tagged blog, broadband, data, digitalwales, engagement, open, openness, politics, posterous, wales, wiki
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29 October 2009 – 11:54 PM
This loosely follows on from the previous post about Twitter being a variant of blogging. Incidentally, normal service on this blog may be resumed at some point or possibly never. Anyway.
Sometimes I think almost EVERY form of publishing in social media can be considered a form of blogging. Is everything here blogging?
On Flickr, for example, [...]
28 October 2009 – 1:33 AM
A cautionary example about who you trust with your stuff. Blog post in Welsh, use Google Translate if you want the gist in another language.
Mae Geocities wedi cau heddiw a rydyn ni wedi colli llawer o safleoedd o’r 90au.
Dw i erioed wedi dechrau safle ar Geocities ond dw i’n teimlo’r poen heddiw. Pam? Dw i’n [...]
You should have seen the Scrabble board tonight. It was violence, pure violence. Sheer lexical brutality. Above this paragraph could be a photo to illustrate my glorious victory – either a snapshot of tonight’s board or something from Flickr maybe, with a classic edition of the board in all its distinctive colours. But I refuse [...]
By Carl Morris
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Posted in language, milestones, pastimes
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Also tagged competition, cymraeg, english, games, letters, losing, qi, Scrabble, sport, welsh, winning, words, za, zen
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