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This is the work blog of Pete Ashton in his capacity as an online communications consultant, though it's often about more than that. If it's to do with people talking online and it interests me it'll be covered here.

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Where do people find the time?

Clay Shirky:
I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she asked me, “What are you seeing out there that’s interesting?”
I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto. You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years [...]

Community Blogging workshops

[Update: the sessions are fully booked now but we're looking to do more in the future.]
As part of Digital Birmingham’s Get Into Digital month I’m running a couple of blogging workshops on June 26th. Titled Community Blogging they’re aimed at those members of society who just aren’t gonna take it anymore and want to do [...]

Content < Conversation

Cory Doctorow:
Content isn’t king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you’d choose your friends — if you chose the movies, we’d call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Cory’s Wikipedia biog, link via @rooreynolds

Getting the naysayers on side is the answer. How is the question.

If there’s an overriding aim to what I’m doing it’s to convince people that digital forms of communication are as important as what we might call traditional ones. That communities and relationships that are formed online are as important as those formed in the real world. In fact I’d go further and say terms like [...]

Trust is the best tool

A Twitter update from Rory Cellan-Jones asked “what are the best web tools for journalists? I’m giving a seminar for colleagues tomorrow – so what do you find most useful?” I seem to spend a fair bit of time watching how journalists engage with the internet because those that don’t have their heads in the [...]