drbexl: Highly Influential September 8, 2009

According to Topsy, I’m highly influential on Twitter! Be interesting to see their rationale for that, as my other Twitter feeds are not demonstrating the same accolade! Nice.

Well, I guess I do spend quite some time on Twitter… I get all my news, etc. from there!

ALT-C 2009: In Dreams Begin Responsibility September 8, 2009

Watching ALT-C 2009, streaming live from the University of Manchester, from today through Thursday 10th August 2009. There’s also some other sessions being streamed via UStream.

Follow the stream on Twitter. (#altc2009 seems to be the main hashtag, but there are other’s noted!).

Beware of the concept of Digital Natives:

Christianity in the Digital Space July 15, 2009

http://digitalsymp.blogspot.com/; Churches’ Media Council; CODEC

• http://twitterfall.com/?trend=%23digisymp!%23153548
• http://cmc-newmedia.ning.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalsymp
• DRAGONS! I’ll be back with more!

16/7/9

• My Twitter account @drbexl has been suspended due to “suspicious activity” – would that be the 1-per-5-mins tweets going on from my account? We’ll see, currently 6pm, so been down for around 24 hours, I am feeling rather bereft of part of my identity!!
• Mark Howe gives a great summary of the conference, ready to LOL?

22/7/9

My Twitter account came back up after about 50 hours downtime! Meantime, if I’ve missed your blog off the list, please feel free to comment it!

• Brownblog: My thoughts on the Christianity in the Digital Space Symposium
• Windo on the World: Is there anybody out there?
• Windo on the World: What future has the Bible got?
• Windo on the World: Does Church Work?
• Windo on the World: Day 3
• Windo on the World: Walking in a Geeky Wonderland
• Mark Fletcher/Church on the Corner
• Ulfilas on Qik.com
• Darren R Hill: The Weekly Review
• St Pixels Discussion
• Anglican Ecumenical Society
• Church Mouse Blog
• The Digital Sanctuary
• Dave Walker: Bishop to Address Christian Geeks
• Ship of Fools: OK if a Dragon Leads Evensong?
• Kouya: Instant Bible Translation
• Furtherandfaster
• Less than 5% can name the 10 Commandments
• Athiest Ireland: Read the Bible Campaign

13/11/09

• Ben Gibbs, ChurchMCR

Fail Blog July 11, 2009

Great blog to follow, fail blog collects together a number of pictures and videos which demonstrate “#fails” (a common term since social media has taken over!). Checkout failblog.

Tribute to Michael Jackson (Comedy-Style) July 5, 2009

This (by the Scottish Falseto Sock Puppets) deserves a wider audience than 1,212 views! Thanks to Prof. Liz Stuart for bringing it to our attention!

Digital Fingerprint July 3, 2009

Since 1997, I have had “mydesigna” as a catch-all for the websites that I’ve designed. As I move more and more into social media, I have set up a new WordPress site, which will become the new, up-to-date site, far more appropriate! I’m faffing around with Blue Host, and hopefully will learn how to upload my own CSS/use my own domain name, then I’m all set to help other people with the same! I’ve just had a fun day helping Deborah Kerslake of Serenergise gain an understanding of some of the possibilities for social media, I think the one she’s most looking forward to using is Twitter! As a result of teaching Debs about fan pages, I have also set up one of my own for Digital Fingerprint!

A real Super Fun Day Out! July 2, 2009

Whilst checking out social marketing material for Super Fun Days Out, I came across this YouTube video… this has to be one of the best things I’ve seen in ages! Guess it’s using the Wallace & Gromit stop-motion technique… I hate to think how long it took these guys to set this up, but I am LOVING it!

Digital Ethnography: Wow! June 24, 2009

Wow, this is really interesting!

Chris Moyles Talks Up Church June 18, 2009

There’s been several mentions of Chris Moyle’s show the other day, where he was absolutely amazed to see people ENJOYING being Christians – clearly been going to the wrong churches!

#assk64: Trending May 27, 2009

#assk64

Finally, I am “trendy”, and was ahead of fashion!

The website “64 words for Aung San Sui Kyi” launched yesterday evening at 9.30pm (GMT), and I was only the second person to Tweet using the hashtag #assk64. Working late on something, I watched it start to take off, particularly once @SarahBrown10, @jimmycarr and @eddieizzard started tweeting about it.

Trending Topic
The image to the left is a screenshot from Twitter in the last 10 minutes, showing that #assk64 is now the third most popular topic on Twitter right now – that’s pretty impressive in less than 24 hours! Most are redirecting people to the website although of course there’s always a few mis-using it – ignore them!

So Where are most of the Retweets coming from?

The organisation behind this hasn’t been slow in asking celebrities to post their “64 words” (although many, like me, have tweeted about it, rather than written their 64 words), and I suspect that @stephenfry (with over half-million followers) has had quite a bit to do with an extra spurt in popularity and the official @64forsuu should be worth following too! @assk64 has dropped off the top trending topics, but still plenty of activity, particularly triggered by Alan Davies this afternoon.

On the Website: George Clooney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Vaclav Havel, David Beckham, Daniel Craig, and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown have all written messages of support.

The News: Waiting to see it start to appear, only 1 story in Google at the moment.

Take Action: On the website, on Twitter, or on Facebook!

Update 11th July 2009: Interestingly #assk64 is still circulating on Twitter.