Social Media Presentation
This is a presentation I put together for a gathering of facilitators on IDeA’s Communities of Practice platform on the hot topicof social meda tools. I hosted it at the excellent SlideShare.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Month April 2007
RSS in Plain English
This video is a great intro to RSS. Tags: rss
Headset problems
I’ve got a Logitech 250 headset, which I mainly use for Skype calls. All of a sudden though, it’s been producing the most awful crackling sound, making it effectively unusable. Anyone know what the problem might be? Update: Whatever it…
The Joys of a Strong Pound
One of the cool things about a single pound being worth more than $2 is that geeks like me can buy domain names on the cheap. For example, the other week I got a .net domain for less than a…
How to tell…
from Gaping Void.
Hercules at Chirk Castle
Note the hilariously positioned bird poo. Tags: chirk+castle, hercules
Google Groups
Am pretty impressed with Google Groups, having had the need to play with it for a couple of days. More here. Tags: google+groups, lgnewmedia
Living Without Microsoft Wiki
Following the makeover that Living Without Microsoft has recently been given – and the upturn in activity that the site has seen as a result – I’ve been beavering away on WikiSpaces putting together a wiki for resources on how people…
Free as in Beer
Since I started Free as in Beer, I’ve come across a few of apps which have become essential: Evernote Zulupad Launchy If anyone who reads this blog has some favourite freebies, let me know! Tags: freeasinbeer
Google Groups as Community Platform?
I mentioned Ning a few posts ago, and in the comments Steve Dale pondered whether it could be used to power a virtual community of practice – ie, would it work as a knowledge sharing and collaboration tool? I thought…