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Reach Further LinkedIn group

Posted Tue, 01/12/2009 - 08:36 by Helen

LinkedIn is the key business social network if you do business in the UK, and if you're on LinkedIn there are a variety of actions you can take to improve your visibility and make more of the kind of connections you need for your business. Joining groups on LinkedIn can be a great way of making contact with individuals you don't yet know and finding new contacts who are interested in the same things you are.

You're invited to join the Reach Further LinkedIn group.  This week we're talking about blogging and microblogging.

If you're not on LinkedIn yet and would like to find out how you can use it to make contacts, and attract more business, then one of our LinkedIn workshops could be for you. Check out the latest LinkedIn course and workshop dates.

What is a tag - and what is a hashtag?

Posted Wed, 25/11/2009 - 17:00 by Helen

You can see tags working in any social network site or social bookmarking site of your choice. They are basically keywords or key phrases, sometimes abbreviated for ease of use.

For example, conferences often have tags so that you can follow the discussion online.  Sometimes the conversation in blogs and on Twitter can be more interesting than the speakers themselves!  A key place or topic will have a tag – Obama’s inauguration for example.

By tagging posts, files, pictures or tweets with a tag, people can more easily find resources that others are using or talking about.

You can see from these that it’s often useful to run words together because many sites can only handle tags that are a single word.

Innovating Elearning 2009 - Facilitating part of the JISC online conference

Posted Fri, 20/11/2009 - 19:59 by Helen

I'm delighted to be involved in this year's JISC Innovating Elearning 2009 Online conference which is entitled Thriving, not just surviving. This year’s conference theme reflects the challenges facing further and higher education in the 21st century and it will features keynotes by Charles Leadbeater, Nigel Paine, and ELESIG members Helen Beetham and Rhona Sharpe. There are a variety of other sessions under two themes, each running over two days.

I will be facilitating a session on 24th and 25th November in Theme 1: "Develop me! Support me! Engage (and retain) me!" with Becka Currant, Neil Currant, Neil McKeown.

The session is about the excellent work that's been and is being done at Bradford to support and introduce new students to the University, before they arrive, as they arrive and as they settle in. A Ning social network has been used to encourage students to talk to one another and to staff during induction, as well as special eportfolio features and learning objects to ease transition.

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