I’ve missed the last few Birmingham Social Media Cafes. This has been a mix of oversleeping (once) and being slightly put off by being cornered by estate agents wanting advice on using Twitter at past meetups.
This week, however, I decided to go along, get stuck in and learn the art of polite mingling!
It was a [...]

Link to Breaking Waves: Birmingham Snow Wave
Breaking Waves A Google Waves Experiment
BACKGROUND OF GOOGLE WAVE

Google Wave was previewed to Google employees on May 27th 2009. Described as a “personal communication and collaboration tool” it was gradually rolled out from September 2009 via invitation. A combination of instant messenger and email, users could send messages to [...]

Bloggers are often considering to be inferior to “proper journalists”. Whether the argument is about training, or responsibility, impartiality or audience, they are often treated as second class citizens.
In reality, some hyperlocal sites are making excellent headway into their local council press offices, for example, to forge those links and get access to council meetings, [...]