This is a sneak preview of my liveblog for tomorrow’s Digital Scholarship: A Day of Ideas blogpost. Check back tomorrow for the liveblogging proper! Today I am at the Digital Scholarship: A Day of Ideas which is a day of “talks and discussions for staff and PhD students in HSS, to inspire and share ideas for digital [...]
Feb 142012
On Thursday afternoon I was at the University of Edinburgh eLearning Presentations Showcase 2011 event. This is a really lovely idea as it brings together presentations given throughout the year on or around the subject of eLearning into one afternoon. It’s a great way to catch up on colleagues’ work but also interesting from the point [...]
Another in this occasional series of sharing my favourite spam… This week commenter “cigarette” shares: I don’t disagree with this writing… Sometimes the spammers and bots make it very easy to click the “spam” button!
Tonight I will be attending this Edinburgh Internet Marketing MeetUp Event featuring two guest social media experts, Adam Gordon Norma Corlette (change to programme) of Gordon BDM and Colin Gilchrist, The Social Tailor and will be liveblogging my notes here. Adam seems cued up to talk about LinkedIn which will be of particular interest as I’m getting myself [...]
Jan 132012
Following the closure of TwapperKeeper and the discussion of how to save tweets at the IT Futures Conference I thought it might be useful to include the Storify archive of Tweets from the day here. It also happens to be a very good excuse to try the newest plugin on the EDINA Blogs platform! We [...]
Today I will be liveblogging from the University of Edinburgh IT Futures Conference 2011 – Social media in academia: a tweet too far? - which is taking place at the Informatics Forum in Edinburgh. The usual caveats apply to this liveblog re: typos, errors, etc. Today I am also presenting so things will be very quiet in [...]
One of the inevitabilities of running a widely-used WordPress-based blogging platform is that we have to deal with a lot of spam messages every week. Despite ensuring no comments can be posted without successful completion of a ReCAPTCHA, and having a significant and regularly updated blacklist of IPs across all of our blogs the various [...]
As you may have noticed by now Google Buzz the useful but disastrously deployed Google social stream tool that used to live within the Googlemail interface (and within Google Profiles) is no more. This is part of a widespread series of consolidations Google have been making to their social media and collaboration tools (as well as [...]
Nov 172011
Back in September I had the delight of being an invited guest speaker at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge. Francis Rowland, a web developer and user experience designer for EBI, had seen my guest post for Nature’s Soapbox Science blog during the summer and invited me to speak to his colleagues from EBI and [...]
Sep 292011
Today I am at the e-Learning Professionals & Practitioners (eLPP – an internal University of Edinburgh group) brown-bag lunch session on Wikis. The current chair of eLPP is Wilma Alexander and she’s kicking off the introductions to today’s speakers just now. How wikisite characteristics affect users’ editing anxiety and usability – Benjamin R. Cowan, Research [...]
