Social media years are a little like dog years. The signs are out that Social Media has settled into its teenage years. As with teenagers in general there are several teenage stereotypes. The overconfident rebel leader The party seeker and connector The Geek The student The non-conformist The Overconfident Rebel Leader Full of self-belief, cocky [...]

Our quest to define, own and control  ideas limits our ability to progress. This is the war cry of open source enthusiasts.  Our capitalist indoctrination and the command and control structure within our institutions have a hard time accommodating this. It is not so much that these opposing views are at different ends of the same [...]

“Content is King” You hear that a lot at the moment. Having targeted content that can travel, address different learning styles, grow and have value added to it has replaced the notion that the website is the destination. People are searching for content. To put some context to this think of RSS feeds and Twitter [...]

There is no doubting that the innovation and investment into social media tools, software and applications have come from the commercial sector. By that I mean start-ups backed up by investor capital, which have taken risks, believed in themselves and their ideas and run with them. It is no surprise that the most discussed social [...]

User Generated Content (UGC) is no longer news; it is an established part of our lives. We expect to be able to participate, share and create online. Just as having a mobile phone is standard. Do you remember when mobiles were something special? Sure, mobiles are evolving. It is no longer a question of whether [...]