Category: work

  • Learning 2.0 update 4/9/2008

    OK think I am going to try and do some kind of weekly blog post on Learning 2.0 stuff that have caught my eye as well as my usual occasional rambling blog posts. This week has seen a couple of official ‘launches’ (well they have dropped the beta from their sites!) The first was Edmodo,…

  • Learn 2.0 start-ups

    Since I started at Beanbag I’ve been taking more of an interest in the other start-ups in the whole ‘learn 2.0’ space (yea I know – another effing 2.0 but I can’t think of another way to describe it – sorry!).  Anyway I thought I would just do a quick post about the sites I…

  • Crouch, touch, pause, engage!

    For those of you who aren’t glued to their TV screens during the Six Nations the title of this post is a reference to the instructions given by a referee in rugby before each and every scrum.  Why am I talking about rugby?  Well as a part of my job I find myself being introduced…

  • WordCamp UK

    WordCamp UK – an unconference for users and fans of WordPress – takes place in Birmingham on the 19th and 20th of July.  It looks like it should be a good event with support from Automattic (developers of WordPress) and some pretty innovative UK users of the (more than a) blog software. After dissapointingly realising…

  • Promoting events using the social web..

    Stephanie Booth recently ran the Going Solo conference for freelancers in the wacky world of the social web and she has documented her experiences of using social web tools and more traditional methods (not least hard work and one-on-one contacts) to promote the event and identifies things she would do differently in the future and…