An online notebook
An online notebook
Take a look at this story, excitingly titled on the BBC News site “Council Twitter users face rebuke“. Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority’s standards committee for using social networking sites. The trouble is, no they’re…
On Wednesday 20th January, Paul McElvaney, Director of Learning Pool and Alison Stott, Project Manager at Essex Strategic HR will be hosting an online hotseat on the commissioning of Open, Distance and E-learning. This will be taking place in the…
Formspring seems a neat little service. It creates a profile for you on which people can ask questions, either anonymously or by logging in. Questions don’t become publicly published though until you decide they are worth answering, so there is…
You will all be delighted to know that I have written a handy quick-start guide to Twitter for people who work in and around government! I have had loads of requests for this, from people who can see that Twitter…
Thanks to everone who helped out with this vote, hopefully we will have the results soon and that it will be positive news! My village’s community centre has the chance tonight to win a £50,000 grant from the People’s Millions.…
Neville writes a post about Twitter lists, some new functionality recently released to users. An official blog post trailed it last month. Neville’s quite positive about it, and indeed it may well work for a lot of people. My view…
I had an interesting time at Socitm09 – a lot of the conversations I had were useful, and others fruitful. I won’t lie to you, though, a lot of what I saw and heard I found pretty painful. My Twitter…
I attended the session by Liz Azyan and Simon Hume at Socitm09 on social media – which was ostensibly about the blocking of social networking sites in the workplace but which was also a general discussion around the benefits of…
This is a lovely little guide to getting to grips with Twitter: Thoroughly recommended.
I’ve been working with BIS and Becta quite a bit recently on the Learning Revolution project, which is all about improving access to informal adult learning – that is, learning which doesn’t generally mean a qualification. So, stuff like book…