Planning is well in hand for tomorrow’s Women on the Web in Leeds (17th September). This all-day conference at exciting venue NTI will bring together over 40 businesswomen. A Forward Ladies event, it is sponsored by NTI and Reach Further, who are organising it. With Meg Pickard as our keynote
This is the first of a series of posts reporting on papers and happenings at the ALT-C conference held this week in Leeds. Bob Rotheram (Leeds Met) reported on the Sounds Good pilot about giving audio feedback to students, both formative and summative feedback on coursework. The technology involved direct-to-mp3
I really should be blogging about the ALT-C conference… I’ll be attending the fourth (but my first) ALT-C Edublogger meetup next week, taking place at Leeds Student Union Mine Bar, Tuesday 9th September, 19.30 onwards. Apparently: ” We may be moving on somewhere else but we’ll stay at the Mine
Think small – while great things are happening in the world at the moment, it seems that several of the bloggers I read have turned their thoughts to the micro scale. From the importance of finding a creative space of your own, however tiny, from blogger Quinncreative, through the microbloggers
You’ll find Reach Further partners in many social networking spaces – we “practice what we preach” and are members of many social networks and online communities. Time is finite, so we’ve found it makes sense to carefully choose the networks and communities that you belong to. Choose those that have
On the BBC’s dot.life blog, Rory Cellan-Jones recently discussed whether or not Brits can make any money from blogging. While there are various quotes from Ashley Norris, previously of Shiny Media who is convinced the UK situation is too small and parochial for bloggers to make money, Cellan-Jones is slightly
In September 2002 a small news item flashed around the Internet. It was forwarded from person to person in private email, posted on message boards, and written up in news services for “techies” all over the world. Its headline was something like “First Smiley Rediscovered”. Mike Jones, a researcher at
All one can ask is – why? Turn URLs into something absolutely hugehttp://www.hugeurl.com/ Or have yourself “the longest alphabetical email address in the world” free fromhttp://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
Admit it – you Google yourself sometimes. Don’t you? Isn’t it funny what you can come up with, though. When I first bought my domain name helenwhitehead.com I started getting emails for an American astrologer of the same name. We were all very polite about it and I promised never
Blogger Alan Levine recently commented on the problems of social media and web applications letting you down just when you need them. In Don’t Cry When Social Media Flops, Just Move On he talked about what happens when the tool you use goes down, particularly in the context of conferences