(From the TEDx Ottawa website): TED is an annual event where some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to share what they are most passionate about. “TED” stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. Past speakers include Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Frank Gehry, Paul Simon, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck and Bono. TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson’s Sapling…

There are a lot of changes happening over at Twitter at the minute. They recently updated their Terms of Service and now they’re working on Project ReTweet, where sharing someone else’s tweet with your connections will be performed differently from the current user-generated method. As is usual when wide-scale changes happen at a company (or, in this case, on a digital stream), there are both fans and dissenters to the new proposals. That’s normal. But what if Twitter could bypass…

Last week was a crazy one for me. I’ve just started a big new project (which I’ll be sharing soon) and getting to grips with it has been information overload from day one (although all good fun). Add to that some really bad wisdom tooth pain, a lot of community planning for a special November 12for12k collaboration as well as normal day-to-day stuff and little sleep, and I was feeling a little bit frayed. Then an email landed in my…

Recently I wrote about why I was moving my #followfriday recommendations from Twitter to this blog. So, without further ado, here are my recommendations for this week. Something a little different this week (and I realize it goes against my reasons for taking it to the blog – just listing names – but there’s a reason this week). Everyone featured today fits into many different categories but one thing they all have in common is that they’re proud wearers of…

“You can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.” – Ricky Nelson. It’s been an interesting last 24 hours. Abusive emails, character attacks on Twitter and questions about my ethics. Just another day in the life of. Time is an interesting commodity. On the one hand, we love it when time passes quickly so we can see a new movie, or buy a new product, or see a new date. On the other, we complain there’s never enough time…

Recently I looked at Social Mention and said that one of the things I like about it is the way it connects all your online sources into one. As more networks and ways to interact spring up each day, it’s cool to be able to see what you’ve written and what’s been written about you in a single place. This integration and interaction is especially true for bloggers, when you want to connect with other bloggers as well as the…

One of the things I’ve always said about this blog is that it’s as much yours as it is mine – community is everything. I may be the bus driver, but you’re the passengers that make the journey so enjoyable. So, just to cement our community that little bit more, I’d like to get to know you better. For the community to get to know you better. So here’s the deal: If you had to choose one blog post to…

I recently received an email about a new service that’s just been launched. Still in beta, Zooity offers users a one-place stop to share all your online ID’s and networks. Now, instead of trying to remember where you are and trying to get all that info to someone who asks, it’s all in front of you. Signing up is easy and then it’s just a matter of updating your account with your networks. While similar ideas have been done –…

There’s a saying that a picture paints a thousand words – but can it also create a thousand questions? For anyone that’s connected to me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll have probably noticed that my profile avatar for both sites is blacked out. Far from being the results of a broken browser, it’s blacked out for a reason (the basic gist is a week-long protest at planned Internet laws in New Zealand). It’s led to questions why it’s blacked out,…

Now and again you come across something that’s just so cool you wonder why no-one did it earlier. Tonight I found one, thanks to Kevin Sherman – bubbletweet. Allowing you to record a video snippet and then have it displayed on your Twitter page for any new followers or visitors to see, bubbletweet is simple and fun – always a good combination. It also has a lot of potential for both personal and corporate branding. Imagine being able to tell…