Robin Hamman at cybersoc.com has an interesting video interview with Dominic Sparkes of Tempero, a UK-based company that provides specialist moderation for social media - including message boards, blogs, commenting, social networking sites and other user generated content. Watch the video for an insight into the editorial and legal issues involved in online moderation.

An innovative use of Flickr as a research and information-gathering tool caught my eye recently. In the run-up to Innocent Drinks’ first AGM, the company is asking people to fill in a questionnaire and submit it via a Flickr group set up for this purpose. At the time of writing there were only 17 photos and an online version of the questionnaire had been made available as well, so perhaps it’s not been a runaway success - but I still think it’s an interesting approach and one I’ll definitely keep in mind for the future.

As well as using Flickr to support the AGM, Innocent is also making good use of other social media tools. A video of the event will be available on Innocent’s YouTube channel and they’re using the AGM as an opportunity to pilot Twitter too. There’ll be a bit of activity on the Twitter feed in the run-up to the event but I expect it’ll only really come into its own on the day itself.

Innocent has put together a smart social media package around its AGM, putting a new spin on tried and tested tools and trying out other tools for the first time. I’ll watch with interest to see how the content across the different social media streams evolves before, during and after the event.

One of the blogs I subscribe to is Simon Dickson’s Puffbox. Simon’s a web consultant who specialises in news and e-government. Like me, he’s a real fan of the Wordpress blogging platform and a number of his client projects push the boundaries of Wordpress to create exciting and innovative websites. You can read about Simon’s use of Wordpress here.

Simon’s recently adopted Google’s concept of ‘20 per cent time’ to develop onepolitics, a site that provides an at-a-glance view of the latest posts on political blogs by journalists and high profile bloggers. The site’s updated every 15 minutes and provides a simple way to keep abreast of political blogs, without needing to understand RSS feeds or manage your own blog subscriptions.

Nicely designed and easy-to-use, I think it’s a great model for feed aggregation - and the flexibility of Wordpress should mean it can easily be tailored to provide an overview of feeds on a different topic or even a variety of topics. Great work, Simon!