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
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
Twitter is a quick messaging or microblogging service. Basically it’s like a web-based texting or short message service. You have 140 characters to say something briefly. Your series of short messages or “tweets” becomes a record of what you are doing and thinking that other people can “follow”. Many Twitterers
I avoided it for a long time – who needs another obsession? – but after the NLab Social Networks Conference, I decided I had to have a part of this, and yes it’s become a regular practice. I follow and am followed by various other people interested in social networks
I’m just finalising the materials for my next blogging course – How to Blog. We call it “an online course with everything you need to know to start blogging – in just 2 hours a week (for 9 weeks).” There are places on the next course still available and participants
Jack Schofield asked at the weekend “which women bloggers are worth a look?” There are of course far too many to mention! But here are some of my favourites: Lorelle VanFossen writes Lorelle on WordPress, which is a wonderful source of information not just about WordPress but about blogging in
Recently I’ve been finding that a lot of emails promoting events and conferences, and even company newsletters, are arriving in my inbox just in image form – or PDF – with an email saying no more than “see attachment”. I find these very frustrating and here’s why. Am I the
Stephanie Booth recently posted an argument against threaded conversations on blogs. I have to say that I disagree to a large extent with what she says as well as the people she quotes, although I don’t deny some of her points. I believe that there is a very good case
My son is in the middle of GCSEs and I’ve been giving him the best piece of advice I know for success in exams – read the question! It sounds basic, but it is surprising how easy it is, especially in a stressful situation such as an exam, to miss
If you are setting up a new blog, probably the next important task after choosing your blog niche is to the job of choosing a name for your blog. One of the first questions is whether to have a quirky name that no-one has already got, so that you can