Tonight I’ve upgraded my site CMS (WordPress) to it’s latest version – the fifteenth major release of this software. The back-end interface looks great and I can see the collaborative efforts that have gone into the dashboard refresh. Here’s a short video that spotlights some of the new release features. Along with this update comes a new HTML5 compliant Twenty Eleven theme that acts as a natural springboard for theme developers. I read this evening that [...]

People often ask me about my job and what I get up to in the role so I thought this would be a good example of what I do. This week it’s Maori Language Week in New Zealand – here’s some of what I have been up to online supporting this event and helping to promote it. The week prior I built a new topic finder resource on the Dunedin Public Libraries website based on [...]

With the launch of Google Plus One I have opted to add the plus one button to each of my blog posts and also to the homepage. Over the weekend I have also been working on adding a button for my Google Profile to the header of each page. Next up I’ll work on adding the Facebook ‘Like’ button – I may has well have both sides of the social battle lines represented. I also [...]

Today I was fortunate enough to be able to watch Lawrence Lessig deliver his keynote at the start of day three at NetHui. It’s always a good measure of a speakers popularity to watch the live twitter stream from an event such as this and observe the frequency of tweets about the speaker and the comments they make. If this was the only measure of success I’d say Lessig won hands down pre and post [...]