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Public Showcase and Engagement Blog Wiki Thing
Today’s Use Case for the Collaborative Tools Project is a difficult one to give an accurate title. It can be thought of as a site that promotes the work of a department or aims to attract a community of like … Continue reading
The Death of Blogging… Again!
I haven’t blogged in ages, but then, neither have you. It seems much of the blogosphere, meaning you and me, have been lured, entertained and distracted by twittering instead. Twitter satisfies many of the needs that blogging used to sate. … Continue reading
A third of people do things that the other two thirds don’t shock!
A third of people forget online passwords. Hilarious… the article requires registration. Is it a sympton of the nicer weather recently that NMA are breaking such hot potatoes as “People Forget Stuff”? This weekend I went to the eko-create launch … Continue reading
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Using Google Page Creator/Blogger and Other Free Services for supporting Small Organisations and Communities
I am always on the look out for new and novel approaches to supporting small groups of people have a presence and communication online using low-cost tools. THE CHALLENGE Many small organisations, such as Easingwold Running Club, need a web … Continue reading
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Rory Motion | my life as an artist
A very long while ago, Jonathan went on a course where he encountered performance poet Rory Motion, and very kindly bought one his books (Neither is the Horse) and gave it to me. I loved it and when, back in … Continue reading
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Human-centred driving directions
It always amazes me how almost all information can be made more human-centric somehow… with a little imagination even the most mundane data can be presented slightly differently to be better suited for our brains. Here’s some ideas for how … Continue reading
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Like… dur!
The article How to Get People Linking and Commenting on Your Blog has some great advice about blogging for people who really will never ever get it… ever… not even slightly…. Here’s another tip. If you want people to talk … Continue reading
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Sack the board of the LazyWeb
I’m fed up with the LazyWeb. It never does what I need doing… well, hardly ever. You see there only really are 3 types of information… blogs (time-based), wikis (structured) and er… the other one… All I want… is a … Continue reading
GPS on MacOS X (or Why Blogs are Rubbish)
I’ve started a blog about GPS on MacOS X, not to teach or share expertise or show off or anything. This blog is to share my confusion and ignorance. There are a few blogs out there about mapping but I … Continue reading
Headshift : Blogging patient opinions
Headshift : Blogging patient opinions Livio Hughes, director of Headshift, says: “We were determined to avoid turning the Patient Opinion site into yet another token ‘patient’ website. Instead, the communication model uses a range of social software tool and techniques … Continue reading
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Stephen Powell: Organisational Blogging – Ultralab 2 year retrospective
Blimey, it’s been two years! Stephen Powell is looking back at the work I (and he) did in my sabbatical in Organisational Blogging – Ultralab 2 year retrospective which has made me realise how poorly I documented everything along the … Continue reading
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Blogging and Marginalia
You know I keep forgetting how important and idea annotation is… how it has a direct relation to both the blog (an annotation elsewhere) and blogs’ sidebars… and comments… …while the marginalia are deliberately pencilled, because the mind of the … Continue reading
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