Month: January 2009

  • Elgg is hiring

    There are a couple of jobs advertised on Elgg.com – if you’re an excellent PHP developer, Linux system administrator or business development manager with experience in social media, we’d like to hear from you.

  • A different angle

    I’ve got about twenty topics for blog posts that I intend to write at some point, but there’s a lot going on, and there hasn’t quite been the time. More prolific posting will resume soon. In the meantime, I’ve engaged in one of those self-indulgent Internet memes, and will be attempting to take a photo […]

  • 3 ways to do good on the web

    1. Play it forward with Akoha Akoha is a game. You buy a deck of cards, each of which contains a simple, altruistic, real-world mission: buy someone a cup of coffee, and so on. Once you perform the mission, you pass the card on, and the recipient registers it on the website. You gain karma […]

  • Self-promotion is not a dirty word

    Vero nails what I’ve thought for a long time: Since I moved from Canada, I have seen too many Brits or Europeans be very sheepish about self-promotion. American sales people are reputed to be bubbly, brash and bigger than life, speaking louder than anyone else in the room and gesticulating endlessly to illustrate what they’re […]