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Reader poll: how do you follow blogs?

By Jez on October 2, 2009

I have several reasons for writing this post. Chief among them is curiosity: I like pulling the universe to bits and poking it to see what happens, and I’m genuinely interested in finding out how readers of this blog actually keep up to date with the blogosphere. Second, I’ve spent a lot of time in [...]

Posted in Ask the readers, Social Media | Tagged Blogging, poll, rss, Social Media, social networking, technology, web 2.0 | 3 Responses

Mobile blogging with Posterous

Mobile blogging with Posterous

By Jez on September 3, 2009

Followers of my twitter stream will have noticed that over the last few days I’ve been posting to my Posterous account from Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Audio, Blogging, Email, mobile, photos, posterous, Social Media, video | 1 Response

Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace

Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace

By Jez on July 28, 2009

If you’ve read a few of my previous posts, you might have noticed me talking about something called uSpace. This is the University’s new social networking platform and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve had to keep relatively quiet about it until recently but now it’s been launched, here are my thoughts on where I [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Academia, Education, research, Social Media, social networking, university of sheffield, uspace | 4 Responses

Weekly links: blogging, books and business

By Jez on April 26, 2009

Here are a few things that have caught my eye this week and I thought might interest you as well.

open…: 10 Things to Build a Blog Readership — I’ll certainly be following these tips. I feel that particularly the first is relevant to practically anything you do. On [...]

Posted in Quickies | Tagged Blogging, links, reading, Social Media, social networking, socialmedia | Leave a response

Ask yourself: "What is this for?"

By Jez on March 23, 2009

I heard an interesting anecdote a while back. I don’t know how true it is, but bear with me because it serves to illustrate a point. The story goes that when the first motion-picture camera was invented, it was intended to be used to create photographs in which the people could move, smile, wave, whatever; [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged evaluation, Social Media, tools | Leave a response

Beginners guide to Twitter Part III: cool tools

Beginners guide to Twitter Part III: cool tools

By Jez on March 17, 2009

Time for the third part of my beginners guide to Twitter. Here’s how far we’ve got:

Twitter basics: messages, followers and searching; Confusing conventions: @s, #s and RTs; Useful tools to make your Twittering life easier (this post).

Today, I’ll be making a whistle-stop tour of some [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged Clients, hashtags, howto, Social Media, social networking, tutorial, tweet, twitter, url shortening | 4 Responses

Beginner's guide to Twitter Part II: @s, #s and RTs

Beginner's guide to Twitter Part II: @s, #s and RTs

By Jez on March 16, 2009

So, here’s the second part of what’s become a three-part introduction for new Twitterers. Here’s where we are so far:

Twitter basics: messages, followers and searching (yesterday); Confusing conventions: @s, #s and RTs (this post); Useful tools to make your Twittering life easier (coming tomorrow).

Let’s get [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged hashtags, howto, Message, retweeting, Social Media, social networking, tutorial, tweet, twitter, web 2.0 | 1 Response

Beginner's guide to Twitter Part I: messages, followers and searching

Beginner's guide to Twitter Part I: messages, followers and searching

By Jez on March 15, 2009

I’ve recently signed up to Twitter. It’s not a new thing; it’s been around for a few years and it’s probably safe to say that I’m way behind the curve on this one. For those who haven’t come across it yet, it’s a very, very simple social networking site which allows you to broadcast 140-character [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged howto, Message, Social Media, social networking, tutorial, tweet, twitter, web 2.0 | 1 Response

Social media resources for learning and teaching

By Jez on March 11, 2009

This post is specifically intended to support my seminar given as part of the seminar of the same title, given to my colleagues on the PCHE course as part of the “Expanding your repertoire” special interest session on Wednesday 11th March 2009. I’ll give a brief description of this seminar at the end of this [...]

Posted in eLearning | Tagged eLearning, Learning, pche, resources, Social Media, teaching, technology, university of sheffield | 1 Response

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