• The one essential Agile ingredient – "Trust means you have to give up Control. A lot of it. Imagination means you will have less Certainty. Correction means you have to acknowledge that you never had Perfection to begin with." As true for agile development as it is for social engagement strategies…
• Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast – Good introductory video podcast (and companion blog post) from Laurel Papworth on donations as a source of funding for online communities.
• The Big Green Idea – The British Council have launched a $10,000 grant for a "big green idea".

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 27-Oct-2009 and 30-Oct-2009.)

• How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts) – More evidence of the iPhone's game-changing nature – AT&T's mobile data usage 50x larger over three years, largely spurred on by the iPhone's launch.
• Tweeting the live local challenge – Digital Eskimo's John Macfarlane blogs about some of Live Local's Twitter efforts during the site's launch.
• Dry Erase Paint for Work, School and Home White Boards – What a terrific idea – paint that turns any wall into a whiteboard.

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 20-Oct-2009 and 22-Oct-2009.)

• Climate (and other) change – Awesome post by Duncan at Digital Eskimo for Blog Action Day – says everything that I wanted to so, just more eloquently…
• At your service – Damian Kernahan makes his case for service design. Filled with some terrific stats. (via @pennyhagen)
• GovHack – "GovHack is a free, intensive day and a half (in Canberra) exploring ways of creating mashups and applications with government data and services, and most importantly building some applications before the event is over."

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 15-Oct-2009 and 19-Oct-2009.)

• HTML5 and video in email – Video with fallback images just might now be possible using HTML 5's video tag – Dave Greiner at Campaign Monitor spells out the details…
• SEO FAQ – And a follow-up post from Derek…
• Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists – Given the series I've been writing on SEO, I thought this rant from Derek Powazek might be of interest to y'all…

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed on 14-Oct-2009.)

• The third way for designing enterprise wiki information architectures – James Dellow outlines a "hybrid" social/structured approach to wiki design – the thinking behind it resonates with my experience.
• The two App Stores – An excellent post by Marco Arment (the dev behind Tumblr and InstaPaper) on Apple App Store "economics" (two very different models operating within the App Store ecosystem). I'm definitely an "App Store B" person…
• Tweeting is more than just self-expression – "Companies are also benefiting from Twitter, where 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests, according to Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Penn State."

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 05-Oct-2009 and 12-Oct-2009.)

• Mobile Phone Internet Usage Statistics In Australia 2009 – Stats from AIMIA on mobile internet and services usage in Australia.
• Leverage external benchmarking – David at Gruden highlights two free "competitor intelligence" options for benchmarking and evaluating competition.
• Social media is harder than it looks - think before you do – Stephen Collins posts an excellent review of the types of challenges in communicating, designing and executing a social media campaign. Recommended reading for anyone considering social networking/media approaches for your organisation…

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 25-Sep-2009 and 30-Sep-2009.)

• Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices – Some great examples/inspiration for making the most of your Twitter profile background image.
• Online Community Engagement: The case for anonymity in online forums – Matt Crozier responds to some of the back-channel questions about his suggestions re: anonymity in public forum engagement at Public Sphere.
• Social Media Metrics Solutions: An overview of the options – David Olsen (@DDsD) posts an initial overview/review of a number of social media monitoring/reporting tools.

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 15-Sep-2009 and 25-Sep-2009.)

• The Future Will be Augmented – Matt Balara does a round-up of some of the more interesting augmented reality efforts around.
• Official Honda Crosstour Facebook page all lit up with early negativity – Honda are reminded that social media is an amplifier, not a cheer squad…
• Introducing About NSW – maps, census visualisations, cross search – Seb Chan, Dan MacKinlay and Renae Mason talk about About NSW – an innovative project out of the Powerhouse Museum. A number of my friends/colleagues worked on this project and it's definitely worth checking out!

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 05-Sep-2009 and 08-Sep-2009.)

• SimsBlog: Top 10 Lies Newspaper Execs are Telling Themselves – Great (intelligent) rant on the future of news (via @foraggio)
• Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration World 2009 – Interesting conference on social networking and business. Good to see Laurel representing ;) FWIW, if I was attending I'd got to see Helen Mitchell (CPA Australia), Laurel Papworth, Kim Portrate and the TripleJ folks. I'd also be interested in seeing Yuri Narciss (from Google) depending on the topic.

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 02-Sep-2009 and 03-Sep-2009.)

• Corporate Twitter Toolbox: Twitter Tools for the Enterprise – Great review of a number of tools for managing Twitter for business.
• How Twitter works in theory – A great overview of some important aspects of Twitter that have led to its success.
• SugarCRM Community Edition v5.2.0f AMI provided by SugarCRM, Inc. – SugarCRM's open source free Community Edition available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) – ready to deploy using Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform.
• SEO for the Average Joe – Some good "quick tips", mostly copy related, for SEO

(These links were posted to my del.icio.us feed between 30-Jul-2009 and 21-Aug-2009.)