David Wilcox
Socialreporting 2gether08
I’ve written a lengthy post on my blog about the different tools that we used in reporting 2gether08, and the team effort to make it work. David Wilcox.
Yoosk engages the audience
Yoosk from David Wilcox on Vimeo.
One of the most interesting and versatile online tools for public engagement presented at 2gether08 was Yoosk, which enables people to pose questions directly to politicians and other major figures. Participants can vote on the questions to indicate those they feel really deserve an answer, which makes it all that [...]
Joanne’s guide to lifecasting
Joanne Jacobs is Australian, an academic and a consultant in social networking technologies. So when she presented at 2gether08, on lifecasting and microblogging, she offered a great mix, catering for distant friends viewing the webcast and giving us plenty of stats as well as terrific insights into how and why formats like Twitter work well.
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Jon Gisby of C4 explains the 4IP fund
Channel 4’s new £50 million innovation fund 4IP isn’t really open for business until later in the year - but at 2gether08 Jon Gisby, director of new media and technology, provided a “soft launch” which gave insights into how it will operate.
JP recaps Cluetrain: we are human amidst the tech
Among the many presentations at 2gether08, the one that led to lots of “did you catch that …” remarks was JP Rangaswami talking about the Cluetrain Manifesto ten years on. At the event is seemed like a touchstone for our explorations of the relationships of people, technology, commerce and society. Now you can see JP [...]
Video of the opening sessions
Here are the opening sessions on July 2, which started with Steve Moore explaining the ideas and experience behind 2gether08, and paying tribute to those who contributed to its very rapid development over eight weeks. Steve said that he wanted the event to be substantially self organising, and developed through creative volunteering. This resulted in [...]
Photos from 2gether08
Here are photos from Flickr tagged 2gether08 - thanks everyone. You can find them here. I used Flickr Slideshow Generator which seems to work OK, but other suggestions for displaying photos tagged by many different people would be welcome. Oh, and if there’s still some on your camera or phone, please upload and just tag [...]
Who is talking about 2gether08
After scanning the Twitter feed from Summize, running a search on Technorati and Google, and following up other links, I’ve put together these blog posts about 2gether08. That’s as well as all items on our main site, and posts on the Crowdvine networking site, which I haven’t listed here. If I’ve missed you or something [...]
Innovate by building on what’s there
Bill Thompson and the New Statesman New Media Awards 2008 from David Wilcox on Vimeo.
Technology writer Bill Thompson, a judge in the New Statesman New Media Awards 2008, has been involved since the awards started 10 years ago. He is well-placed to applaud both the consistent support of NS publisher Spencer Neal, and that of [...]
Is our politics big enough to cope with the web?
One of the highlights of the first day of 2gether08 was a debated host by Matthew D’Ancona, editor of The Spectator, with guest panellists: political blogger Mick Fealty who writes as Brassneck and Slugger O’Toole; Sunny Hundal, Liberal Conspiracy; Rory Sutherland, Vice Chair Ogilvy Group; and Tom Steinberg, founder of MySociety.
There’s another 20 hours or [...]
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