Two Free e-​​Books on Social Media

Two more down­load­able social media guides that caught my eye over the last couple of weeks.

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Community Practise

Just a quick note to point out the publisher-​​​​sanctioned free PDF avail­able of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon. It’s a guide to building and running online com­munities and social networks. Bacon is the com­munity manager for the Ubuntu oper­ating system, the dom­in­ance

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My Week in Media

I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…

Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly

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From Big Cats to Barthes

I’ve just been checking out Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia found­a­tion that aims to create free books. Like Wikipedia, anybody can con­tribute to the books either by adding new material or editing existing books. Those books that are complete or voted ‘good enough’ are also avail­able as PDF doc­u­ments and even print editions

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10 Free eBooks About Web 2.0

I expect you’re fed up of waiting for my book to appear. I know I am. In the meantime, stay up to speed and save money with ten free e-​​​​books about Web 2.0 and Social Media. In no particular order…

1) Social Media or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love com­mu­nic­a­tion” by Australian PRs Trevor

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