Independent practitioner commentary on Web 2.0, social media and web standards for UK universities and colleges.
Practical notes for university and college web teams weighing up blogs, social software and emerging standards in everyday institutional use.

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Guest Post: Marketing Man Takes Off His Tie
Today’s guest post is from Peter Reader http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/ , Director of Marketing and Communicatio
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Paper on "Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends" Published in Program
A paper on “ Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends ” has recently been published in the Program journal Program Electroni
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Issues In Crowd-sourced Twitter Captioning of Videos
Crowd-sourced Twitter Captioning of Videos Back in March 2009 Tony Hirst write a post on his OUseful blog entitled Twitter Powered Subtitles for Conferenc
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Fragmenting The Discussion?
I’m An Occasional Facebook User I have to admit that although I have a Facebook account I don’t make much use of it. I do have a large number of Facebook
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Non-Commercial Use Restriction Removed From This Blog
Posts and comments published on this blog have been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence http://creativecommo
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W3C WAI Invite Feedback on Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology 1.0 Working Draft
On Monday 20 September 2012 the W3C WAI published the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology 1.0 working draft http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/
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