Archive for the ‘internet tools’ Category

The Queen visits University of Leicester

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

I thought I would use the Queen's visit to Leicester as an excuse to finally have a shot at using Qik on my N95. T'was good. I got to show the Internet what the rest of the crowd saw from where I was standing - absolutely eff-aw! (Well, if you scroll to the ...

Amplified 2008

Monday, December 1st, 2008

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Image Courtesy of Phil Campbell"]     Image Courtesy of Benjamin Ellis   Last Thursday, I dragged my pre-man-flu self down to London to visit Nesta's headquarters for Amplified 08 - a non-conference to bring together creatives, practitioners, academics - or indeed anyone that was interesting in social media - who had taken part in previous events ...

Just a few things…

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I think I am well over-due a blog entry. I've been spending the last few weeks sorting out a few things (and moving house, again!) and preparing myself for the looming January Ph.D. start date. I got my Masters result a few weeks ago and if all goes to plan, I will be graduating ...

Managing Identities: Part 2 (Netvibes)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The smallworlds project aims to introduce emerging online research tools, such as Twitter and Delicious, at a grassroots level to early stage laboratory students at the University of Leicester. For many of the students that we met at the introductory sessions last week, this was their first encounter with these sites - and ...

Managing Identities: Part One

Monday, October 13th, 2008

It was decided when we started the small worlds project that those involved would create an alternative twitter identity from that they were currently using day-to-day. When I set up @jennifermjones - it got us reflecting on how separate twitter identities would be managed practically (to come shortly). In particular, it could me ...