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Social media talk: 3 December 2012, Sighthill
As part of an event for 'Supporting Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University' I've been asked to put together some resources and reflections on the ways blogs and blogging can play a part in the life of a humble researcher, such as me. Rather th...
London 2012 Olympic Twitter archive
Over the course of the London 2012 Olympic Games I put together a Storify of tweets relating to the events and the debates and the media stories that people were linking too. It wasn't systematic process, there'll be lots that slipped through the ...
#enconf Using Storify to tell the story of an academic conference
Edinburgh Napier University, my employer, hosts an annual conference for academic and professional services staff ??? an opportunity to get people together, focus on chosen themes and discuss ways of integrating them into our teaching and learning. ...
Culture Hack Scotland (#chscot) and Citizen Relay (#citizenrelay): on events and projects and communities and networks
Here are some notes on two projects I???ve recently been involved with ??? shame on me for not getting this onto the blog before now. On consecutive weekends I attended Culture Hack Scotland (Glasgow) and Citizen Relay training (Edinburgh). From Cultu...
DREaM workshop two. (Part three of five events.)
Part three of the DREaM sequence took place in the British Library???s conference facilities on Monday 30 January ??? full details are here, presentation videos are here (for community members). This was the half way mark in a series of events that I???...
Social music
Having been socialised into a society that worships the ???0??? I???m using a small anniversary to ponder social music. Just as we celebrated the arrival of the year 2000 with fireworks (and fears that it would kill our computers and bring planes out of...
Blogs for teaching, learning and research: a personal collection
The blog is an established social media tool, emerging in the late 1990s as a way to publish online. A wide variety of organisations have developed ways to create a blog: mostly free, generally making the process easier, with greater flexible and ...
Software review: Scrivener and NVivo
As my PhD research slowly gets into gear this quick post reflects some current joy with Scrivener and potential future fun with NVivo. (The latter is largely notes to myself and might not make for great reading.)ScrivenerThere's a ten minute intro...
Digital Audience Development, courtesy of Inner Ear.
It was very good to see a large audience for the 2011 'Digital Audience Development' session at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Run by Inner Ear Ltd. again on Thursday 4 August, this was the second time I've seen them present ideas and case studies ...