bryanmiller's blog

Ever since Facebook launched its open developers platform almost a year ago Facebook Apps have been all the rage, including a wide range of Apps developed in support of various charities. However, for anyone not especially into software development the idea of creating your own Facebook App may well never have occurred. Where do you start even if you want to have a go?

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A bit of fun from telecoms company Orange, who have set-up a survey-based site that uses your responses to questions on internet use to calculate your 'Internet Age' - from 'Online Toddler' to 'Virtual Vetran'.

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Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, has just released its first dedicated report on social networking in the UK. It's free to download and makes very useful reading - essentially an extremely well researched one-stop primer on the whole subject.

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A common question that crops-up when I'm discussing the potential for Web 2.0 approaches to supporter engagement is whether such things as Facebook and MySpace aren't just the domain of 'young people' (a flexibly applied term - usually defined as 'younger than our supporters').

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I'm afraid that a combination of some especially busy weeks at work and my home broadband going down for a while has left my blog rather sparsely updated recently.

However, I have had the opportunity to write a short piece for the e-newsletter of the Resource Alliance on one of the subjects I've been working on quite a lot recently - Community Fundraising 2.0.

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Recently I've been using an analogy originally promoted by online marketing pioneer Seth Godin to help illustrate how individual d

Back at the end of October I wrote about an innovative online corporate fundraising campaign that our team at WWAV Rapp Collins had just developed for homelessness charity Crisis.