An online notebook
A quick plug of this great workshop being delivered through the Public Sector Web Network (about which I will shortly have some very exciting news!). Social Media for Emergency Planning & Resilience Thursday 22nd September 2011, Park Plaza Hotel, Leeds This workshop is aimed at all Category 1 Responders as identified in the Civil Contingencies … Keep reading
I’ll be joining my good friends at Learning Pool on the 14th September in celebrating their Community Day – where the UK’s biggest public sector online learning community will be coming to life. The packed agenda features plenty of reasons to sign up for a place, if you haven’t already. Keynote presentations from Dr Andrew … Keep reading
Nice article by John Naughton on the state of IT education in schools: What is happening is that the national curriculum’s worthy aspirations to educate pupils about ICT are transmuted at the chalkface into teaching kids to use Microsoft software. Our children are mostly getting ICT training rather than ICT education. And if you can’t … Keep reading
Good stuff from Michael Coté: In moving to a BigCo job you quickly notice how different life behind the firewall is when it comes to IT. You’re often more limited than empowered. The advances in consumer IT (things like Facebook and GMail) often have created better IT than corporations provide their employees. For well over … Keep reading
I didn’t know you could do this. Maybe you don’t either, so I’ll share it. How do you find out which of your tweets have been retweeted, and by who? Turns out, by looking on the Twitter website! First, go to twitter.com and log in. Then click the little ‘Retweets’ tab just under the updates … Keep reading