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Useful links: High Ed Websites, Knowbility, SXSW podcasts

Friday, March 19, 2010

Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites at Smashing Magazine lets you see quite a few academic sites that pass Smashing’s standards as being well designed. These fine folks, with Knowbility Executive Director Sharron Rush at the top left, are the Knowbility crew who managed the Knowbility booth during the Trade Show at SXSWi. The [...]

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My thoughts on SXSW interviews

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Remember the incident at SXSW with the way Sarah Lacy interviewed Mark Zuckerberg? This year it was Twitter founder Evan Williams being interviewed by Umair Haque. There wasn’t a huge uprising of anger this year, there was just a mass exodus from the room because it was sooooooo boring. Look at the remarks on Twitter [...]

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Women at SXSWi

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Where are the women in tech? They are at SXSWi. The South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi) ongoing in Austin the last few days is famous for several reasons. It’s a gathering place for techies of every stripe, but the techies I want to bring to your attention today are the women. A hallmark characteristic [...]

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SXSW Interactive: 15 March 2010

Monday, March 15, 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

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SXSW Interactive: 14 March 2010

Sunday, March 14, 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

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SXSW Interactive: 13 March 2010

Saturday, March 13, 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

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SXSW Interactive: 12 March 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010

SXSWi photos from My Flickr.

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Useful Links: Captions, your college on Facebook, Web Education Rocks at SXSW

Monday, March 8, 2010

The Future will be Captioned at the YouTube blog explains their new auto-captioning function, which works only for English videos at this point. I saw a presentation from the social media team at Central New Mexico Community College last week. They talked about how they interact with the college’s 25,000 students on Facebook. The rule [...]

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How to make a specialized widget of Twitter streams

Thursday, March 4, 2010

You can make widgets for your own profile, for a search string, for your favorite tweets, or for one of your Twitter lists. Start at the bottom of your Twitter web page by clicking the “Goodies” link. Select “Widget” and then choose the type of widget based on where you want to display it. Next [...]

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Backchannel thoughts

Monday, March 1, 2010

Women and the backchannel on This is Rachel Andrew talks about the backchannel comments directed at female presenters at the recent 200th Boagworld podcast. A couple of good ideas were proposed to deal with the issues raised. The chatroom on the Boagworld show was essentially a backchannel, and similar issues have happened in conference backchannels [...]

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