Every now and then I come across new words, or words that are very old but which I haven’t come across before. I love it when I find someone’s invented a word for something that has really needed one. I guess it’s not surprising that my favourite word is “serendipity”.
When I heard about the Hay Festival’s Most Beautiful Tweet contest as judged by Stephen Fry I did wonder what they were talking about. A tweet can be informative, interesting, surprising, witty, engaging, well-written, poetic – but beautiful? Still, the Hay Festival’s director, Peter Florence described it thus: “The definition
I’ll definitely follow you on Twitter if… … you catch my attention! There are several ways to increase one’s number of followers on Twitter – it’s been shown for example that a profile picture of a smiling head photo is more likely to attract followers than a depersonalised icon, Twitter
Can you help me compile the ultimate list of resources for using blogs in learning and teaching? A while ago I did a bit of a bibliography on the use of wikis in learning and teaching [Blog post August 2007]. Together with some practical action research with the use of
The unprecedented closure of the UK’s airspace today due to an ash cloud drifting over the country from a volcanic eruption in Iceland brought out the best in social media as well as traditional media reporting. Twitter was alive with links and explanations, from elearning companies providing free resources for
The second Media Camp Nottingham on 27th March was at the excellent venue Lace Market House on High Pavement. One might think from the lack of funding and traditional media and other interest in digital and creative industries that there wasn’t much going on in Nottingham. This second event organised
One of the handiest tools to use in a social media campaign is Namechk. This is a simple way to check to see if your desired username is still available at more than 80 popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking websites. Online marketing using social media is more effective if
First save the background of your choice to somewhere on your computer’s hard disk Login to Twitter Click “Settings” towards the top right Under [Yourname] Settings click “Design” Here you can select one of Twitter’s own themes, then add your own background image, and if you’re feeling really creative, you
You can see tags working in any social network site or social bookmarking site of your choice. They are basically keywords or key phrases, sometimes abbreviated for ease of use. For example, conferences often have tags so that you can follow the discussion online. Sometimes the conversation in blogs and
The Twitterverse and the blogosphere are great places to find out information. Recently I’ve been alerted to: WordPress and Twitter: 35 Mega Twitter Plugins for WordPress, a post on the mostly excellent W3mag which has gone straight into my RSS reader. In this particular post, tools for creating links between