The swell of hype has been building in the geek community over Google Wave for a while and a couple of week’s ago the next stage of the launch happened – 100,000 received invites to have a play and see the platform for themselves.
It’s early days (it’s only in preview, not even Beta yet) but [...]

I read an interesting post by Carl Haggerty recently called ‘Why do you participate with social media?’ which he’d written after seeing a presentation on the subject.
I have, on occasion, asked myself the same question – why do I participate? Broadly (and a bit lazily) I usually summarise with a) It’s useful and interesting b) [...]

We’ve had lots of debate in this organisation (and I’m sure it happens in every organisation as they explore the online channel) about opening up our website and its content for users to comment on or adapt.
This has focused on specific areas such as discussion forums or the more general ideas of making our pages [...]