Category Archives: Web/Work
HighEdWeb 2008: Kyle Ford
Kyle Ford spoke on social networking and Ning. Great talk on where we’ve been and where we’re headed with social networks. I’ve played with Ning for a while and was glad to hear his take on Ning for educational purposes. … Continue reading
HighEdWeb 2008: Search Engine Optimization
Ads Go for quality traffic by bidding on less popular search phrases. You won’t get as many clicks but those that do click are better quality matches. Adwords can be cheaper at end of day or month when others have … Continue reading
HighEdWeb 2008
Gabriel is also here and posting. He, of course, is keeping much more up to date than me. I have some catching up to do.
HigherEdWeb 2008: Wiki+Shared Drive+ DocMgmt = Our Intranet
Discussion on Intranet need. Library looking to replace shared drive space full of documents. Of course these are almost completely unorganized. They were looking for a better collaborative tool. They are using Confluence by Atlassian (makers of JIRA). I have … Continue reading
HighEdWeb 2008: St. Louis Community College Design
Discussion on the development of a new web site for St. Louis Community College. There is discussion on a need for discovery. What do students want? They contracted with a vendor to perform research on needs and desires. There were … Continue reading
Fall term
This morning is the start of fall term at PCC. The campuses are bursting with energy yet again. In my part of this world, all is going well at this point. Our systems are usually stressed during the first week … Continue reading
Dipity
Played around a little bit with Dipity tonight. Dipity is a pretty cool tool to develop an interactive timeline on topics of your choosing. The example below (cramped by my choices while playing with their advanced embedding options) includes entries … Continue reading
Firefox 3
Patience pays off. Downloaded Firefox 3 this afternoon with no trouble. Install went smoothly and all is well. The “awesome bar” worked well since my open tabs before the upgrade did not get restored after the installation. Memory usage, at … Continue reading
BumpTop — the Fun Desktop
The BumpTop desktop resembles mine, just not sure that is a good thing. Tossing something across my desk doesn’t usually result in billiards style reactions. The mess gets worse or something breaks. Enticing options are the many ways BumpTop allows … Continue reading
Acrobat.com Beta
Mark on the acrobat.com team left a comment on my previous post about a snag they had this morning. It seems service was available soon after I tried but I had to go on to other things. I have had … Continue reading
