Update: article on completion issues, drawing on Katy Jordan’s research, HT to Emerging student patterns in MOOCs from March, plus Sheila Macneill’s No cost, no risk – no problem? prezi. And you can always become a repeat offender – many MOOCs run several times, so you can listen the first time round and complete the [...]
Haven’t done a plain links post for ages. I’m trying to get away from lists, but perhaps a few annotated links can be a good way of tracking current interests. Or a nice Sunday displacement activity. Events…many are still completely unamplified or curated, but for this seminar on the power of social media to support [...]
The VirComm Summit took place on 7 February in London. No time to catch up b4 or during, but it’s been well curated by eModeration, with a Storify slideshow (63!) and Pinterest. Plus it’s on nOtice.
Lots of MOOCs going at the moment. A tale of two MOOCs compares Coursera’s EDC with FOE (since fallen over). EDC (from Edinburgh, I’m so proud) is going down well all round for its learning style, while FOE got a nod for useful content. Sheila MacNeill compares EDC with OLDS MOOC, with the former sounding like a [...]
#cmad takes place on 28 January: what’s it all about - includes a list of events taking place around the world My Community Manager and Hootsuite are hosting 12 hours of Google Hangouts from 8am in some time zone or other EST (from 1pm in DK) – each hour will feature a topic and invited guests The [...]
Part of my motivation for MOOCing was to see how the learning management system (LMS) and any associated tools worked in practice, from a content perspective. I found both LMSs (Coursera and Moodle) lacking in terms of design and usability. They looked outdated, were not ‘fun’ to use and contributed to my not engaging with [...]
Updates: Why every startup founder needs to be a community manager | What matters most Strawberryj.am, a nice little website which let you extract links from a Twitter account or hashtag, has just been spread on its last scone…it’s not the first handy tool I’ve used to vanish, and while there’s often another one just around [...]
Update, 14 August: a post-Olympics chat was held by #commschat on 13 August, highlighting some interesting findings by Opinium Research about the perception of brands (and government promises) before, during and after #london2012, plus Sociagility’s Olympics Tracker dashboard, measuring the social media activity around sponsoring brands. My Community Manager, a US community management resource in the social [...]
The latest news:rewired conference took place on 13 July. With the tagline: Full stream ahead and a focus on tools, techniques and tips there were lots of juicy takeaways. Stonking coverage – liveblogged using CoveritLive, followed by a summary blog post and then a compilation of presentations and video (although they aren’t quite all there yet and there’s [...]
Back in November I wrote a post on social network analysis based on a session at the first DREaM workshop. In it I predicted that the community would be analysing themselves, so I was delighted to see the follow-up session at the final DREaM event. At the first workshop participants were asked: Whether they were [...]