Monday, January 7, 2008 Facebook for Enterprise worklight has announced a secure enterprise overlay for facebook, allowing workers to use all the social networking tools of facebook, whilst keeping sensitive company information behind a firewall. The blurb states that employees can freely use Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no
Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace is offering artist/software develper commissions. Ten development grants, of up to $2,000, will be granted to individuals and collectives using ShiftSpace as a platform. From the ShiftSpace website: While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how
According to an article about trendspotting on the BBC website today, The Shape of Things to Come, all things “green” will be outmoded in 2008. But that’s not to say that environmental issues will not be important, far from it…. “Blue will be the new green, says the director of
Prophets are not always welcome. It can be difficult to make a great idea stick. In the 1990s I spent years trying to point out to writers and other individuals that the Internet and particularly the Web, was a great place to interact and could revolutionise the way they worked
Helen and Liz of Reach Further wish all our readers a happy, prosperous and successful New Year.
Some questions to think about when planning to use blogs with students: What is the purpose of the blog – make sure it is clear – is it linked to assessment? If it isn’t assessed will they bother to use it – probably not? Do you use a class group
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
While I’ve been away with a virus (head rather than computer…) the winners of the Edublog 2007 awards have been announced. They are a great selection of blogs. I was intrigued by the “most influential blog post” which is the one by Karl Fisch back in 2006 which started the
I’ve been writing less in the blog at the moment – lots of effort is going into the ELKS “Advent of Technology” Calendar, full of people’s favourite tools for teaching and learning with technologies. You don’t even have to be a member to see the calendar :) DIRECT LINK to
This December at ELKS (the community of expertise which I manage for the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT in Development initiative) we’ve adapted a December tradition to produce an “Advent of technology” Calendar – with a resource, tool or tip about e-learning for every day of December. There are 30