Here’s an interesting blog posting about the kinds of job titles that owners of business start-ups give themselves. OK, I have always wanted to call myself “Creative Director”. But I have resisted the temptation. What does it really mean? At the moment I call myself an elearning and online communities
The BBC programme Click online reports today on a security flaw in the Facebook website. Many users enjoy adding the many third-party games, quizzes and other applications that are available within Facebook, from Scrabble-type games to movie quizzes to ways to turn your friends into zombies. The BBC’s Click reporters
The Trendspotting blog reported on a recent survey of social media usage. Universal McCann recently published its comparative study following Social Media trends in three waves: September 2006 (Wave 1), June 2007 (Wave 2) March 2008 (Wave 3).Trendspotting’s post highlights major results in the study including: Social media is a
As it’s something I do a lot, I thought I might try to put together my own model for case studies of elearning implementation. The logical place to start would seem to be that the case study of an elearning initiative should follow the same structure as the development of
There are all sorts of reasons why one wants to analyse an online community – finding out who are the busiest and most informative posters is one possible requirement. I just spotted an old article from New Scientist (well, July 2007) that describes how researchers at Cornell University, New York,
The youngest ever patent holder is reported today on the BBC website. Sam Houghton, of Buxton, Derbyshire, was just three when he watched his Dad sweeping up debris in the garden and using two brooms. Sam then came up with a double-headed broom to collect large debris and fine dust
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox points out the flaws in four website designs, including some surprisingly major companies (the New York Times, for example). The mistakes include bad content, bad links, bad navigation, and bad category pages. He then points out that bad content takes the prize for costing
The project eXe has been brought to my attention. A New Zealand-based open source authoring application, it aims to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content
I will be attending the NLab Social Networks Conference in June. The conference aims to explore the benefits of social networks for business http://www.nlabnetworks.com/ Thursday 19th & Friday 20th June 2008 De Montfort University, Leicester, UK * What is a social network and how can it generate wealth for your
CourseLab CourseLab, is a free authoring tool, with lots of great features – very usable and professional. It offers a WYSIWYG environment for creating interactive e-learning content. FeedBlitz enables you to provide blog posts in a newsletter format – it’s a way to give blog readers the option to read