Tag Archives: northernvoice

May14

Charlotte Bourne

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How To Do Good on the Internet

One of Enquiro’s core values is to make the world better by contributing to the community. This topic was delved into at Northern Voice by Darren Barefoot, who led a great session on how we can do good deeds online (he also took a little time to bash Luongo). Good deeds don’t necessitate spending money. They can be as simple as retweeting a valuable post or liking something on Facebook – just spreading the message can help to advance social causes. Here are six websites Darren highlighted that are creatively allowing for people to contribute to social issues: -          Procrasdonate [...]

May13

Charlotte Bourne

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Geosocial Networking: The Newest Dimension of Social Media

Social location sharing is about to hit the mainstream. Services such as Foursquare and Gowalla have been in increasing use by social media hardcores for the last year or so, but haven’t really taken off to a large degree. Foursquare itself only recently hit the one million user mark. But with Facebook announcing that it will be launching new location-based features (known as “Foursquare Killers”) imminently, social location sharing is going to be put front and centre in front  of a much broader audience. Social location sharing is not the only location-based tool gaining attention. MyTown and other location-based, augmented [...]

May12

Charlotte Bourne

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Crowdsourcing the Creation of Content

CBC Radio 3 hosted a session at Northern Voice called “Wikifying the CBC: Social Software at CBC Radio 3”. The session took a look at the new Canadian Music Wiki which is expected to launch this Friday. The wiki allows the Canadian public to contribute to an online music database of information about Canadian music. The project is best defined as a user-generated, participatory online resource on Canadian music. People tend to be very enthusiastic about the subject of music. CBC Radio 3 is fortunate as they have a substantial base of online users currently using their web properties. The [...]