Comments for Stuart Glendinning Hall http://www.stuart-hall.com Covering pretty much everything, and social networking. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:17:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Just. Use. Youtube. by Gez Smith http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/11/10/just-use-youtube/#comment-426 Gez Smith Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:40:36 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1635#comment-426 Glad you like the post, the pingback for it seems to have got caught in our spam filter oddly. Askimet has now been taught the error of its ways... Guess knowing how to use the software properly might be easier said than done, but the more people in the sector use it, the faster everyone will learn. Certainly the Hammersmith and Fulham council tax video on Youtube taught people the problems of astroturfing pretty quickly for one. Glad you like the post, the pingback for it seems to have got caught in our spam filter oddly. Askimet has now been taught the error of its ways…

Guess knowing how to use the software properly might be easier said than done, but the more people in the sector use it, the faster everyone will learn. Certainly the Hammersmith and Fulham council tax video on Youtube taught people the problems of astroturfing pretty quickly for one.

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]]> Comment on Just. Use. Youtube. by Stuart http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/11/10/just-use-youtube/#comment-304 Stuart Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:41:50 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1635#comment-304 I should also add that with a social networking platform such as WordFrame that because of the way Youtube RSS doesn't quite work, you can't autopost videos using that route: "You can't do anything to fix the problem. Youtube.con does not generate correct RSS feeds. There is a specification that they don't follow strictly. But WordFrame needs correct feeds in order to autopost them. So these feeds does not go through our rss validation process (we follow strictly RSS feeds format specification) and cannot be autoposted." Rumen Yankov, WordFrame support. See the full chain of thought at: http://forums.wordframe.net/Forums/13961 I should also add that with a social networking platform such as WordFrame that because of the way Youtube RSS doesn’t quite work, you can’t autopost videos using that route:

“You can’t do anything to fix the problem. Youtube.con does not generate correct RSS feeds. There is a specification that they don’t follow strictly. But WordFrame needs correct feeds in order to autopost them. So these feeds does not go through our rss validation process (we follow strictly RSS feeds format specification) and cannot be autoposted.” Rumen Yankov, WordFrame support.

See the full chain of thought at: http://forums.wordframe.net/Forums/13961

]]> Comment on How to think out of the 2.0 box by Presidential Race On Best Political Blogs » Blog Archive » How to think out of the 2.0 box http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/10/31/how-to-think-out-of-the-20-box/#comment-300 Presidential Race On Best Political Blogs » Blog Archive » How to think out of the 2.0 box Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:38:37 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1605#comment-300 [...] How to think out of the 2.0 box YouTube has been a star of the US presidential race. Facebook makes us all into little web publishers. [...] [...] How to think out of the 2.0 box YouTube has been a star of the US presidential race. Facebook makes us all into little web publishers. [...]

]]> Comment on The future is orange by Stuart http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/10/29/the-future-is-orange/#comment-298 Stuart Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:37:47 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1599#comment-298 Benjamin: I think it helps if there is a policy in place up front so all employees know where they stand. Personally I think it's about getting the balance right. Last place I worked banned the use of instant messaging for a while as I recall, even though it was useful for project managing teams across the globe. Maybe it's about setting out reasonable boundaries which employees and employers can both benefit from. For example allowing use of social networking sites during lunch hour only. Or instant messaging when just for business purposes. It's also important for businesses to keep an eye on the social media space, as no matter how fine grained their regulations may be they need to externally monitor conversations which may damage their brand (as well as keep a note of positive customer praise!). Check out the <a href="http://howsociable.com/" rel="nofollow">HowSociable?</a> free web 2.0 brand checker for example. Benjamin: I think it helps if there is a policy in place up front so all employees know where they stand. Personally I think it’s about getting the balance right. Last place I worked banned the use of instant messaging for a while as I recall, even though it was useful for project managing teams across the globe. Maybe it’s about setting out reasonable boundaries which employees and employers can both benefit from. For example allowing use of social networking sites during lunch hour only. Or instant messaging when just for business purposes.

It’s also important for businesses to keep an eye on the social media space, as no matter how fine grained their regulations may be they need to externally monitor conversations which may damage their brand (as well as keep a note of positive customer praise!). Check out the HowSociable? free web 2.0 brand checker for example.

]]> Comment on The future is orange by Benjamin Wright http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/10/29/the-future-is-orange/#comment-296 Benjamin Wright Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:50:13 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1599#comment-296 Stuart: An employer might use software to monitor and limit social networking time, so employees don't spend it to excess. What do you think? <a href="http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/employee-computer-acceptable-use-policy/" rel="nofollow">Detailed discussion</a> --Ben Stuart: An employer might use software to monitor and limit social networking time, so employees don’t spend it to excess. What do you think? Detailed discussion –Ben

]]> Comment on How to survive a recession social network style by The future is orange | Stuart Glendinning Hall http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/07/18/how-to-survive-a-recession-social-network-style/#comment-295 The future is orange | Stuart Glendinning Hall Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:31:07 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/07/18/how-to-survive-a-recession-social-network-style/#comment-295 [...] me of a post I wrote back in July on ‘How to survive a recession social network style’ quoting the example of BMW’c [...] [...] me of a post I wrote back in July on ‘How to survive a recession social network style’ quoting the example of BMW’c [...]

]]> Comment on Medicexchange alumni by Adam http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/10/13/medicexchange-alumni/#comment-201 Adam Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:44:47 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1484#comment-201 Hi Stuart, good to see that you are keeping in touch with all of the old MDXers! Hope you are well. Adam Hi Stuart, good to see that you are keeping in touch with all of the old MDXers!

Hope you are well.

Adam

]]> Comment on Is complexity to blame? by Stuart http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/10/07/is-complexity-to-blame/#comment-197 Stuart Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:01:14 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1478#comment-197 I hear what you're saying Trevor. There's also the point made on IT Counts <a href="http://www.ion.icaew.com/itcounts/15106" rel="nofollow">by Duncan Hardy</a> that "Monarch looks useful but it still relies on having machine readable data in the first place. The big problem is getting information from paper onto spreadsheets". Maybe there's an open source solution you can suggest? I hear what you’re saying Trevor. There’s also the point made on IT Counts by Duncan Hardy that “Monarch looks useful but it still relies on having machine readable data in the first place. The big problem is getting information from paper onto spreadsheets”.

Maybe there’s an open source solution you can suggest?

]]> Comment on Is complexity to blame? by Trevor http://www.stuart-hall.com/2008/10/07/is-complexity-to-blame/#comment-196 Trevor Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:48:25 +0000 http://www.stuart-hall.com/?p=1478#comment-196 'Fraid I get nothing from the link for Monarch. The presentation seems to be in the secret, proprietary Shockwave format, which as far as I know can't be viewed by people running free software. A web search comes up with lots of sales links and a page or two of astroturfing, but nothing else much about the software. Oh well! Cheers..... ‘Fraid I get nothing from the link for Monarch. The presentation seems to be in the secret, proprietary Shockwave format, which as far as I know can’t be viewed by people running free software.

A web search comes up with lots of sales links and a page or two of astroturfing, but nothing else much about the software.

Oh well!

Cheers…..

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