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Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Tag Archives: social networks
Tweetdeck Chrome App
I’ve just installed the new TweetdDeck app for Google Chrome and like what I see so far. It takes the “that’s so obvious, why wasn’t it done before” idea of combining (TweetDeck calls this blending) all your feeds into three … Continue reading
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Tagged browsers, chrome, social networks, tweetdeck, webapp
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Ning Reunited
I’ve just joined the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group (ELESIG) which is based around a Ning site (elesig.ning.com). After Chris Hall and David Williams launched a Gwella group, I’ve noticed an increase in activity and the … Continue reading
Friendfeed groups – a social network for PLENK2010?
In response to George Siemens’ Week 4 discussion topic “Is it the topic or the period in the course?“, Vahid Masrour said “I have a suggestion… posted in my blog [Where is MOOC's social network?"], but in a nutshell, i … Continue reading
The Real Life Social Network v2
I was wandering aimlessly across the internet, as you do, when I came across an interesting SlideShare Presentation The Real Life Social Network from Paul Adams (@padday) who works as the user research lead for social on the User Experience … Continue reading
Ning announces new prices … initial comments
Yesterday I received an email from Ning’s CEO Jason Rosenthal announcing the “exciting new developments in Ning” (which include the phasing out of free Ning) which will be rolled out in July. The mid-range price plan Ning-plus at $19.95 per … Continue reading
Drupal for social networks
While doing some research (i.e. Google search) on Drupal for social networking in education, I was intrigued to find out that the educational social network cloudworks.ac.uk was originally developed using Drupal. See Gráinne Conole and Juliette Culver, “Cloudworks: Social networking … Continue reading
A Beginner’s Guide to Social Engineering
Today I presented a “Lunch and Learn Session” to colleagues at our Staff Development Unit. Here are the slides which are hosted at Google Docs. The creation of a Ning network was a highlight of the session, and unfortunately that … Continue reading
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Tagged lunch and learn, salt, social networks, staff development
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I Ping therefore I am
Just a quick post to tell you about a new (to me) social network notification service called ping.fm. Just by connecting to your favourite services you can update them all from a single web site. I’m using it in the … Continue reading
The Death of Swurl
Swurl was a lifestreaming tool with a great interface that I was subscribed to since I read about it in Read Write Web back in July last year. Unfortunately, without warning, it’s now gone and taken my life with it! … Continue reading
How many blogs is too many?
I regularly post to three blogs. This one, which used to be work related, is now sort of miscellaneous. I try to keep my other blog @the.coalface, which is a multi-user WordPress blog hosted at my University, focussed on my … Continue reading
