Nice simple video from Twitter.
http://youtu.be/18_N_ImJ9IU
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- The power of technology for learning and why creating together is better | Helen Milner
- Barcamp NotForProfits | dxw (I’ll be there representing @tasksquadhq)
- Digital local government: a future in Google Glass and the internet of things
- GDS becomes political as Labour launches digital government review
- The nitty gritty of Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do – @euan
- Podcasting « WordPress Codex
- A plain English guide to how natural language processing will transform computing
- Should Markdown become a standard? | OSS Watch team blog
- Google Analytics Academy – free online course / via @aliceainsworth
- comms2point0 – 10 things about internal comms and channel shift
Tame your Twitter stream
Not sure how I had never come across this before, but Tame is super useful!
You set up an account as with all these services, and then connect to your Twitter account. Tame then goes away and comes back with a dashboard style view, in three columns.
The columns display the most popular links being shared by the people you follow, the most popular hashtags being used, and the most popular accounts being mentioned.
It’s a simple idea, but for those moments when you don’t have time for much more than a quick glance at Twitter, it gives you a fast summary of what’s popular in your stream – which might be all you need.
Here’s a video to show how it works:
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Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Don’t drown in email! How to use Gmail more efficiently
- twister : peer to peer microblogging platform (interesting from privacy/decentralisation angle)
- Why blogging still matters in business – and always will — @euan
- In 2014, let’s get digital skills out of the classroom – @lesteph
- Do people really care about personal data? – Mydex
- Network Stories: Hacking Complex, Ongoing News by @timdavies
- 10 tips for managing your time on social networks « Learning in the Social Workplace
- The almost-post mortem for Patch — BuzzMachine