Back in August 2009 I wrote a post explaining how to shorten a URL in order to share it on Twitter and other social networks. When every character counts, as in the 140 characters permitted per tweet, then a URL can take up far too many characters, and in the
I’ve been looking for a really good way to provide a mechanism that allows readers to share the content on my website. I’ve tried a variety of WordPress apps, but none of them work very well. Now I’ve installed Wibiya (see the toolbar below) which so far works well. It’s
Once a month I like to look back on what I was blogging about this time last year and in previous years. It often prompts reflection on how things have – or have not – changed and where I have moved on to. In July 2009 I was looking at
In June last year (2009) I was Remembering digital art and writing and reminiscing about my time as a digital writer and artist working for the trAce Online Writing Centre. trAce did some excellent creative online writing and digital art projects including several Digital Quilt projects, the first being the
A collection of the most useful websites and blogs I’ve come across in the past month: e-learning and social media E-learning The BBC’s learning design toolkit incorporates some familiar elements of thinking about learning, with some new approaches in a conceptual toolkit intended to guide the work of anyone involved
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
This blog used to be called Periodic Fable – which I thought was a very clever name for a blog from a writer who’s also a science graduate. I still think it’s a great name, but it doesn’t cover what I write about, which is e-learning and online communities, with
I’ve had reservations about Facebook’s privacy for some time. In fact I approach all free commercial applications, from Google to Ning, with a healthy dose of scepticism. Recently I’ve been reading Dan Yoder on his blog Rocket.ly and on Business Insider. He gives ten very cogent reasons why he has