Yesterday, as I was down in London amplifying and liveblogging the JISC GECO project event Geospatial in the Cultural Heritage Domain – Past, Present, Future I was delighted to see some of the liveblogs I’ve posted here in the past getting a little love. My post on the Digital Scholarship Day formed sufficient record that Andrew [...]
Mar 082012
Today I am at the CIGS Web 2.0 and Metadata Seminar being held at the National Library of Scotland on George IVth Bridge, Edinburgh. I’m here as a speaker but also to listen in to some excellent looking presentations. I’ll be liveblogging all day and you can also follow the tweets with the #MAWS2012. As [...]
Feb 242012
Having hotfooted it over from George Square where I’ve given my Innovative Learning Week session on Social Media – more on that in a future blog post – I’m now at the School of Education for a seminar from Dr Melissa Terras, Reader in Electronic Communication at the UCL Department of Information Studies and Co-director of the [...]
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 research, teaching and scholarship. An exciting programme of invited speakers working in the field of digital scholarship will present their ideas and their work” taking [...]
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 [...]
