Using a wiki to manage your committee
As the Chair of 2020 Communications Trust its my job to manage our governance bodies, including the full meetings of trustees and the monthly Admin committee.
Naturally we try to use the tools we promote, starting in the old days with emails and attachments. That soon gets totally unwieldy as participants add their comments, want to edit or amend documents and add or amend agenda items. The secretarial load soon becomes impossible. Time to webify the process. [Read more →]
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December 14, 2009 No Comments
Abandoned Facebook pages get new unauthorised owners
Its very easy to get enthused about new technologies and start new things all over the internet. But when they don't work out as well as you hope or you lose interest or the enthusiast leaves the organisation, the litter of your work can have downsides.
First, you may be represented by information that is out of date or just wrong, and second, those social networking tools may be open to abuse by others. Facebook Hijacking Points To Social-Networking Holes [Read more →]
November 23, 2009 No Comments
Watching change happen
Some days you can get to see that something big has shifted in the way the world works. Twenty years ago it was the sudden and unexpected collapse of the Berlin Wall and when things happen on that scale seeing the change is easy, but sometimes the change needs to seek you out and slap you awake. Like this. I’ve Got Nothing: Crowdsourced Song Created by YouTubers [Read more →]
November 10, 2009 No Comments
How to deal with negative comments
Engaging with the world via online media is a great idea, its also a hazard. Actually, it doesn't matter whether your have a website, a twitter account, a Facebook page or jot, your organisation could easily find itself being talked about, and criticised, online anyway so keeping an eye on what is being said matters.
But when someone starts to unload on you, and others pile on as well, what do you do? Don't panic for a start, we all need a bit of thick skin anyway and it may not be more than a few pinpricks. But be aware, and read this from Kate Hennessy at NETT.com. How to: deal with negative comments [Read more →]
November 4, 2009 No Comments
Broadband internet, civil right, silver bullet or mirage?
New Zealand is going through the throes of trying to figure out how to deliver real broadband internet access to all of us. despite the fact that 1.1 million of us have existing levels of broadband, the real deal is a different thing altogether. While we worry about how to spend a billion or so on the technology, one country at least is starting somewhere else. Finland First Country to Make Broadband a Legal Right [Read more →]
October 28, 2009 No Comments
