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Helen and Liz of Reach Further wish all our readers a happy, prosperous and successful New Year.
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UK much keener on social networking than other Europeans
A new study from communications watchdog Ofcom has revealed that people in the UK are much ‘keener on online networking’ than other Europeans. More adults in the UK use social networking sites such as Facebook than in other European countries, says the second annual International Communications Market report. Four out
Test your brain and feed the world!
Free Rice http://www.freerice.com/ Test your knowledge of vocabulary – for every word you get right, the sponsors donate 10 grains of rice through the UN. Great for anyone who enjoys words! The spelling (and the dictionary by the feel of it) is American, though.
Build your own virtual world
The time is coming closer when we really don’t have to get out of bed even to wander round the house. Build your own 3D virtual world and invite all your friends round! Metaplace is a web application developed by Raph Koster, one of the developers of massively multiplayer online
Fancy getting away from email?
The BBC reports today on companies which are instituting “no-email” days in order, so as – they claim – to “increase productivity”. Some of the companies mentioned include Intel, PBD, Deloitte and Touche. They’ve picked Friday. That doesn’t seem a very good idea to me. As Friday is the last
Avoiding misunderstandings online
As an article in the Guardian today points out, travelling among different cultures can be a minefield of misunderstandings and possibilities to cause offence http://www.guardian.co.uk/../culturaltrips “Flowers may seem like the perfect gift to delight your gracious hostess with, but beware, in many countries particular varieties, colours and even numbers have
Free community book
This is the second Knowledgeboard book, written by community members from their own experiences, and at first glance is extensive and informative. http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/blog/?p=71
Checklist for an online community moderator
I was preparing a “checklist” for e-moderators of online communities and thought I’d post some of the more important and skilled tasks that e-moderators need to do and to evaluate themselves on. So often we hear managers who believe that anyone can run a community – they think: “how difficult
Elearning saves the environment!
The Open University have proved elearning is green (bit of an old study, but I would think computers are even more energy efficient now…) “A study by the Open University found that on average ‘distance/open learning courses used 90% less energy consumption and produced 90% fewer CO2 emissions than the
A bug in Excel…
Beware if you’re using Excel for certain calculations. The 2007 version of the software has a bug in it. If you have a copy try asking it to calculate 77.1 times 850. Here’s a clue – the answer should be 65,535 But in Excel 2007 it’s 10,000! The explanation is