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Word Cloud of all my Tweets to-date 14 Feb 2013 | 11:38 pm
Word cloud of my 42,051 tweets to-date Twitter announced last December that they were going to make it possible for any Twitter user to download a full archive of all their tweets. Since then I have b...
My Twitter ‘Magic Number” is 16, what’s yours? 2 Jun 2011 | 06:45 am
Twitter is a superb medium for getting a message out. And it’s RT (ReTweet) convention means that tweets can go viral very quickly. However, if you want to be ReTweeted, you need to make it easy or p...
How to use LinkedIn to land your dream job 11 May 2011 | 12:02 am
I was scanning Twitter this morning when I spotted a question from Adrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post asking if anyone found LinkedIn useful and what for. I emailed Adrian the following story...
The secret to following lots of people on Twitter 15 Feb 2011 | 08:25 am
Twitter is a fantastic tool for disseminating information, and the obvious corollary of that is that Twitter is a superb app for consuming information as well – depending on how you use it. What is t...
15 Twitter tips for beginners – updated 10 Feb 2011 | 08:05 am
I wrote a post a couple of years back called 15 Twitter tips for beginners which, though two years old, still has useful information for Twitter users – especially if you make sure to read all the com...
Video production basics for social sustainability 5 Feb 2011 | 07:19 am
Of course, blogging should be only one of the weapons in your Social Sustainability arsenal. Other tools you should be using include, FaceBook, Twitter (obviously), LinkedIn (their Groups feature par...
Blogging for social sustainability – the why’s and how’s 3 Feb 2011 | 07:39 am
In my first post on Social Sustainability, where I talked about the importance of sharing, I mentioned that I had been thinking of writing a post about blogging – well, here it is! I know this will b...
Social Sustainability and the importance of sharing 1 Feb 2011 | 03:02 am
I wondered for a while what to post on first here after the re-branding of the site and the new focus on Social Sustainability. First I thought about doing a post about blogging seeing as it is one o...
Tom Raftery’s Social Sustainability – site re-brand 28 Jan 2011 | 10:29 pm
I started this blog back in July 2004 – back then a lot of my posts were centered around Open Source and web technologies in general. Back then the blog was branded Tom Raftery’s IT views. Then in Ap...
Firefox 4 Beta 10 is out – it’s time to upgrade! 27 Jan 2011 | 08:14 pm
Firefox 4 Screenshot I downloaded Firefox 4 Beta 10 yesterday on my Mac. It was released just days after Beta 9 and I’m not sure what all the differences are between Beta 9 and Beta 10 are but I had...
