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Preparing for Culture Hack Day 2012
Today and tomorrow (and hacking right through the night) I’m in Glasgow for Culture Hack Scotland 2012. I’m along to play with data, to see what cool stuff other people create and to particularly see...
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Designing for community-powered digital transformations workshop – LiveBlog
Today I am at the Designing for community-powered digital transformations workshop at Tate Britain, London. I am live blogging but there is no wifi so this could be a bit glitchy as I’m working with a...
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Henry Jenkins – talk and discussion – LiveBlog
This evening I am at a talk by Henry Jenkins, notes will be tied up but here’s the raw form live from my iPad: David Gauntlett is introducing us to Henry Jenkins, Professor at University of Southern...
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A quietly amplified summer
You may be wondering what I’ve been up to for the last few months as things have been rather quiet here on the blog. I thought it was time to post something brief on recent activities ahead of a longer...
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Interactive Scotland@Turing
Today I am dipping in and out (around other meetings) of Interactive Scotland@Turing, the conference day of the Turing Festival. It’s being live streamed over on the AmbITion Scotland website. I have...
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Engaging with Social Media – JISC Communications Workshop Post
This post is my contribution to the JISC Project Communications Workshop taking place on Friday 5th October 2012 for the rather marvellous projects in the Content funding strand. The JISC...
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Visualisation Allsorts
I sometimes receive quite specific requests about social media, new tech or other slightly more tangental things. A few weeks ago I was asked for advice on Visualisation tools for a research project...
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Pondering the Possibility of an Online Hack…
Over the last few weeks we have been mulling the possibilities of running an Online Hack for the Will’s World project. You can read more about the plans on the Will’s World blog where you will also...
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Repository Fringe 2013 now open for registration – and social media...
This year I have the great honour of being Chairing Repository Fringe 2013 (#rfringe13), the annual unconference on all things repository related. There will be several posts appearing here over the...
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Twitter API Version 1.1 Switchover
In late May/early June Twitter finally took some long standing API components out of service as they switched to Version 1.1. This shift had been advertised for some time – and most developers should...
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Culture Hack Scotland 2013: We Are On Albert Drive
A few weeks back I attended Culture Hack Scotland 2013 at The Whisky Bond, a mixed art/culture/design space in Glasgow. I was aiming to liveblog the event but ended up too busy with the hack so I’m...
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Crowdsourcing Your Neighbourhood at the Edinburgh Fringe
This time last week I was getting set for my first ever Edinburgh Fringe show as a performer, a Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas event which took place on Monday5th August at The Famous Spiegeltent on George...
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RSE Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry
As we enter the last phase of the evidence gathering process I wanted to draw your attention to the Royal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry that I am part...
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How To: Create Sensible Subject lines for Feedburner Email Subscriptions
Here at EDINA we use Feedburner for managing some of our RSS feeds as it allows you to do many very useful added value things with your feed, including delivery by email. Unfortunately by default the...
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[Extremely Belated] Live-Blog: Introducing Heriot-Watt Engage
Back in May I participated in the Heriot-Watt Engage Launch event (see this news item). These are my very belated notes from this day on communicating and engaging the public with research…...
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Follow Up Post: Crowdsourcing Your Neighbourhood
Following my post earlier this month on the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas event which myself and my colleagues Addy and Ben ran on Fieldtrip GB, I am delighted to have some additional follow up. The main...
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CILIPS Autumn Gathering 2013: “Inspiration and Education” Liveblog
Today I’m at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, for the CILIPS Autumn Gathering 2013. I will be presenting on social media and digital participation this afternoon but will be liveblogging...
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New Infographics Guidelines from the Office for National Statistics and the...
Huge thanks to Tony Hirst (via Peter Burnhill) for flagging up a new set of Infographic Guidelines from the Office for National Statistics. You can read more about the guidelines, and their origins in...
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Launch of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Digital Participation Inquiry...
Today sees the publication and launch of the Interim Report from the Royal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry. I have been delighted to be a member of this...
View ArticleLivetweeting and EDINA events at Jisc Digital Festival (#digifest14)
A brief post to let you know that on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th March myself and various EDINA colleagues will be taking part in the Jisc Digital Festival 2014. I will be livetweeting throughout...
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