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Reader poll: how do you follow blogs?
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 [...]
Social networking at the University of Sheffield: uSpace
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 [...]
Weekly links: blogging, books and business
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 [...]
Beginners guide to Twitter Part III: cool tools
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 [...]
Beginner's guide to Twitter Part II: @s, #s and RTs
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 [...]
Beginner's guide to Twitter Part I: messages, followers and searching
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 [...]
Project update
It’s been a little while since I posted, so just to keep you interested, here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to.
Learning and Teaching Conference 2009
Mark and I, introduced by Patrice, presented a showcase session on the project at the university’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Mark gave an overview of the motivation [...]
Social networking poll
Social networking poll, originally uploaded by Jez Cope.
I was busy pulling together some links for my last post when I came across this beauty. I think this says it all about the prevalence of Facebook in the current student community!
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