I had quite a busy week of webinars last week, running a successful webinar on E-portfolios for the ELESIG community at elesig.ning.com. I also attended two fascinating webinars, one on bidding for European funding from the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network and one on Digitisation at the British Library, from the
Blip.tv is an alternative to YouTube, but is not precisely the same kind of thing. Blip.tv is “a next-generation television network.” which makes available user-produced web tv shows. Rather than viral videos or those intended to sell a product or service, blip.tv focuses on original Web shows. It invites “sitcoms,
How does one approach the introduction of major change in a much loved web institution? For over 12 years now I’ve run a children’s writing website, Kids on the Net, and for a variety of reasons I’m contemplating some changes – to bring it right up to date and keep
We’re often asked by our trainees and clients how to make a long web address into one of those very short ones that are easier to post on Twitter – or any other socal networking website that has limitations on the number of characters. Often the URL or web address of
There are always new ways to evaluate online marketing or search engine optimisation. Recently I’ve been experimenting with Google’s keyword analysis tool at www.google.com/sktool. It analyses a given website and gives you a list of keywords it finds and teells you you how many searches the keywords or phrases have
Chris Maiden, of Drupal experts Menus and Blocks, is spending part of a week later this summer cycling from London to Paris in aid of the Meningitis Trust. Chris, along with a friend, is planning the charity bike ride to arrive in Paris for the start of Drupalcon Paris 2009
Thinking about the “Art of Digital” had me reminiscing about my years as a digital writer and artist and remembering all the wonderful creative online writing and digital art projects we did as part of the trAce Online Writing Centre. When I did my MA in Writing my dissertation was
Twitter has failed and your shared online calendar is down. The lag on your task list server is too great for the overloaded wifi you’re currently using and you’ve forgotten your password for that Google Doc you were working on… Would this scenario paralyse your day to day work? I’ve
One thing that people often forget when they are posting material on the web – in blogs, on websites, or even in web-based learning materials – is that copyright applies just as much on the Web as it does elsewhere. Just because a piece of text or image is on
Let’s hear it for the women who are learning to conquer the web… Today (24th March) is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging organised by Suw Charman-Anderson to draw attention to women excelling in technology. The FindingAda website explains: ” Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom