The BBC reports today on the number of “mums” starting their own businesses. Apparently the number of women working for themselves has leapt by nearly 20% since 2000, according to official figures, and now tops a million. It’s not surprising that more and more people – and not just mums
Twitter is a quick messaging or microblogging service. Basically it’s like a web-based texting or short message service. You have 140 characters to say something briefly. Your series of short messages or “tweets” becomes a record of what you are doing and thinking that other people can “follow”. Many Twitterers
A new search engine launched this week which claimed to be a challenger to Google. Cuil (pronounced Cool) was developed by former Google search experts. It claims to combine the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. The launch was not without
Despite the tremendous value that an online community can bring to a organisation or business, it’s never really true that “if you build it they will come”. There are all sorts of reasons why online communities may fail. Recently many commentators have been covering the The Wall Street Journal Article
Jack Schofield asked at the weekend “which women bloggers are worth a look?” There are of course far too many to mention! But here are some of my favourites: Lorelle VanFossen writes Lorelle on WordPress, which is a wonderful source of information not just about WordPress but about blogging in
Central ITV news filmed me in a mini workshop at a school in Nottingham. Yesterday the story ran on prime time local news about the search by a group of young French artists to find the artist who drew Fat Gourg in our Kids on the Net project, Monster Motel.
Our project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury. In one of those strange but heartwarming Internet stories, a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by a seven-year-old, Luke, during a writing workshop at a Leicestershire Primary School led by Reach Further’s Helen Whitehead in 1999 has become something
Our academic colleagues, clients and partners might be interested in the webinar we are running tomorrow, Friday 27th June, in the ELESIG community. ELESIG (the Higher Education Academy’s Special Interest Group for the Learners’ Experience of Elearning) is a community for researchers and practitioners who are looking at evaluating the
Reach Further’s Liz Cable is profiled in the Independent’s Flexible Working feature today. Reach Further is very committed to flexible working and as well as providing various solution for its own employees works with others to develop skills in managing remote teams and networking online. You can see some of
Recently I’ve been finding that a lot of emails promoting events and conferences, and even company newsletters, are arriving in my inbox just in image form – or PDF – with an email saying no more than “see attachment”. I find these very frustrating and here’s why. Am I the