Finally: a reasonable way to browse the Twitter stream

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 22 June, 2010 - 10:05

After about a year of tweeting @kabissa about Kabissa, African civil society and technology issues, the biggest frustration for me has been an inability to go back later to review what I and others were tweeting and sharing about a certain topic at a certain point in time. Sure, it's possible via http://search.twitter.com and other websites and twitter apps, but the sheer volume of tweets makes most of these interfaces unwieldy. Too often I return from a conference and am unable to find a certain tweet shared on a certain day that I wanted to look into. 

I managed to miss this, but it looks like Google launched a new feature in April that addresses just this issue. (Thank you Guardian Technology News Bucket for the reminder). To try it yourself, go to http://www.google.com and select "Updates" on the left side before typing in your search terms. You can then choose the year and month to browse, and then specific time periods on a given day. 

UPDATE: Click here to watch a screencast I made walking you through Google's twitter search. Thanks @bonniekoenig for pointing out that it was needed!  

NGO Sector Supplement launched by the Global Reporting Initiative

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 4 June, 2010 - 17:51

Established international NGOs were well represented at the GRI conference in Amsterdam last week and presumably also in the production of the new NGO Sector Supplement. There is no reason not to see Kabissa members at the grassroots look into and join the GRI process, and also consider integrating sustainability reporting into your own organizational procedures no matter what your size.

Lessons learned about linking and embedding videos on YouTube

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 4 June, 2010 - 13:10

Today I spent a bit of time poking around http://youtube.com/gritv looking for videos of great presentations to share from the Amsterdam Global Conference on Transparency and Sustainability I had the pleasure of participating in last week. The videos are short and chopped up in a rather unwieldy way, so in the process of sharing my favorite talks I had to figure out a few things. I have recorded my learnings below - perhaps you also have some suggestions - please add them as comments to this post. 

Twitter joins the mainstream at the GRI Conference - sort of

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 3 June, 2010 - 16:10

Twitter microblogging was actively encouraged last week at the Amsterdam GRI Conference. I took advantage of this and enjoyed the twitter back channel enormously. Indeed it kept me awake during some of the longer slide presentations. Here are some reflections on things that occurred to me for actually mainstreaming twitter and social media at big events like this - I welcome your ideas too. Thanks!

The Role of the Media in Shaping the Future of a Transparent Economy

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 21 May, 2010 - 09:31

Amsterdam GRI ConferenceUPDATE May 28: Panel is today! Thanks everyone who sent in feedback. I have added bullet points of my 3 min presentation of myself below. Look forward to the discussion! 

UPDATE May 24: I added talking points below. Please add your examples and ideas!

Next week I am joining some interesting people from The Guardian newspaper, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and others (see below for description and speakers) on a panel discussion at the Amsterdam GRI Conference.

It is a future oriented panel that looks promising - we will be discussing the role of the media in sustainable development and how media organizations are "grappling with measuring and reporting on their own unique media content related sustainability impacts." This is an area new to me so I am coming ready to learn. I will try to slip in some of my own insights (see talking points below) about social media in sustainable development. Let me know if you have any burning issues you'd like me to raise or suggestions. 

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