Two more downloadable social media guides that caught my eye over the last couple of weeks.
UGC and The Law
Published by moderation company Tempero, this guide helps site owners get to grips with how their social media ventures might fall foul of the law and how to avoid that happening. Relying on former audience members to generate your site’s content …read the rest of this article

Just a quick note to point out the publisher-sanctioned free PDF available of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon. It’s a guide to building and running online communities and social networks. Bacon is the community manager for the Ubuntu operating system, the dominance of which compared to other Linux variants is arguably down to the strength of its online …read the rest of this article

I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…
Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly the bitchiest thing I’ve ever …read the rest of this article

I’ve just been checking out Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia foundation that aims to create free books. Like Wikipedia, anybody can contribute to the books either by adding new material or editing existing books. Those books that are complete or voted ‘good enough’ are also available as PDF documents and even print editions created through Lulu.
A branch of the …read the rest of this article

I expect you’re fed up of waiting for my book to appear. I know I am. In the meantime, stay up to speed and save money with ten free e-books about Web 2.0 and Social Media. In no particular order…
1) Social Media or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love communication” by Australian PRs Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins. …read the rest of this article