I’ve been trying to get to grips with Facebook Places over the last week or so, despite it not being rolled out beyond the US at the moment.
As with most Facebook functionality the default option is that you fully opt-in to the service, which will allow you to use GPS to share your location. There [...]

A lively kick off to LocalGovCamp Lincoln with this session on ideas and experience of social networking in local government as suggested and lead by Chris Schubert of East Lindsay District Council.
This session started with a discussion about whether council’s should use Facebook or whether people are going to Facebook for purely social reasons and [...]

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) [...]