I gave a presentation on social media to the OU School of Law. After taking advice I dropped a lengthy though illustrated ‘talk’ in favour of my favourite Web 2.0 metaphor the ‘Traffic Light.’
Here I think of red as a webpage, amber as a blog and green as quasi-synchrnous discussion in a forum on the likes of Linkedin.
I then went into WordPress and showed how easy it is to create a blog. I have now created so many practising, 16, that the dropbox of the blogs I managed struggled to load and the last tag for ‘create a new blog’ was off the screen.
I also find myself wanting to keep all these prematurely born blogs, especially ‘possibly in German’ which I took from a Post it Note that caught my eye (had planned to be out there next week filming) and appleby-castle@wordpress.com which I took from a postcard on my desk.
To my surprise on Garry Slapper’s advice I put in ‘OULaw’ and got it. Having broken off to discuss the values and uses of a blog I then put in some text to illustrate how easy it was to write a blog then Tweet the results, even share it to a LinkedIn Group, Facebook et al.
XXX I out as the title, XXX I put in the body of which was turned into a Tweet XXX and linking url. I was about to Tweet when it was pointed out that I might get the wrong kind of traffic.
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