Reining in interest is sort of going OK, as I have been largely sunk in MOOCery and refining my research interests for a couple of months. Librarians are prone to being generalists, and I often feel envious of people who have a clear focus. Working on sharpening mine a bit more. Related to MOOCs is [...]
Visual.ly might be a bit limited, but it does simple things well. Here’s my LinkedIn profile infographic, Earth Tone Version. The other styles include different categories of information and are laid out differently. Egobooster task for the Xmas hols: update LinkedIn profile, plus investigate other personal timeline tools. create infographics with visual.ly
My first MOOC has turned out to be not quite as expected – see #sna posts over on my CPD blog – but at least that means I’ve a smidgen of time for my second MOOC. Introduction to infographics and data visualisation (needs a #) is hosted by the Knight Center for Journalism in the [...]
The Times Higher this week had a fascinating article on academics’ Web presences, showcasing some academics who have broken free from centrally designed templates buried within their institution’s website. Harvard even has its website creation package, Open Scholar. In the comments discovered the This Is Me project, which “investigated digital identity, collected stories and developed [...]
What’s the best way of adding links to text? See 5 ways that The Guardian puts external links onto webages for a choice of methods, including automated and curated. A further post talks about automating inline links using tags, with a final post (so far) on the user experience. Nice to see this topic explored in such [...]