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• More thoughts on using social media in business

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:10 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Giving Information, Googlejuice, Leadership Amp Management, World Of Ewan

  I'm spending a day with some folk from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's highly successful economic development agency. We're taking a look at how some of the older ideas I've been developing on social media for small, medium and large companies might work north of the Border. I'll be keen to see if we can maybe develop some new innovative ideas on

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• More thoughts on using social media in business

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Giving Information, Googlejuice, Leadership Management, World Of Ewan

  I'm spending a day with some folk from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's highly successful economic development agency. We're taking a look at how some of the older ideas I've been developing on social media for small, medium and large companies might work north of the Border. I'll be keen to see if we can maybe develop some new innovative ideas on

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• Freeing up educational data

  Published: August 18, 2007, 7:53 am

  Tags: Giving Information, Glowscotland, Ltsfutures, Weblogs, Api, Google Maps, Ltsfutures, Scotedublogs

  there must be a database of information that could be manipulated. This week I made the first moves to getting that information from the Content Management System where it lives converted into something usable (Excel), split it into nursery, primary, secondary and special school stages, to then upload it to Google Maps in these batches and pop

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• How to look after your first Bebo Boomer

  Published: August 27, 2007, 5:17 am

  Tags: Digital Image, Giving Information, Socialisation, Weblogs, World Of Ewan, Andy Carvin, Diaper Diaries, Baby, Birth, Facebook, Flickr, Maps, Twitter

  I've been doing this Daddy job for a week now and, so far, the social work haven't removed her and she doesn't yell too much. Apparently, though, this investment can go down as well as up (and in about 13 years' time, all over the place). The web, specifically the blogosphere, has proven more timely and in-depth than even Spock. It's almost

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• EuroCALL Virtual Conference: Web 2.0 and language learning

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Constructivism, Giving Information, Languages, Newcon, Weblogs, Graham Davies, Eurocall, Eurocall07, Eurocall2007

  EuroCALL, the European organisation which strives to explore new ways of teaching and learning language through technology, are having their annual conference in Coleraine, University of Ulster, this week. There is a great virtual strand with conference presentations, papers, abstracts, streaming audio and aggregations of related content,

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• Google Maps to help locate Scottish schools

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Digital Image, Giving Information, Ltsfutures, Learning Teaching Scotland, Free Our Data, Google Maps, Latitude, Longitude, Lts, Ltscotland, Postcodes, Lts

  for as long as the core information was accurate. The minute that core information (that the school exists, its inspectorate reports, stats, contact details etc) changed, though, then the Googlejuice-high Google Maps of inaccurate information would come up first, above the accurate information held in LTS's site. Those generally searching

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• My Scottish Learning Festival: where, with whom, doing what?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: Channel4, Communication Tools, Giving Information, Scotlearnfest07, World Of Ewan, Teachmeet07, Glasgow Science Centre, Bbc, Scotlearnfest07

  Wednesday 19th9.30-10.15: Giving my seminar: We're adopting! A social media strategy for education, SECC ForthThis is an adapted version of the talk I gave in Boston earlier this year, bringing in a bit of the questioning around how public your public body (i.e. school) can be(Book your place see my Boston version)10.45-11.45: Listening to

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• There are no shelves on the web

  Published: October 20, 2007, 3:50 am

  Tags: Giving Information, Researching Amp Tags, Scotlearnfest07, Sett06, Socialisation, Tags

  our assumptions about information, or to watch his talk at last year's Learning Festival, then this second Michael Wesch film (from the maker of The Machine Is Us/ing Us) is a must-watch.Thanks to David, Euan, Johnnie and Adriana for the collective nod.

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• Before we design a new tool...

  Published: February 6, 2008, 5:18 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Giving Information, Leadership Amp Management, Lift08, Ltsfutures, Media Literacy, Socialisation, Lift08

  delving into the quantity of information that some of us choose to, while others don't. Take a look at decision-making. How do social tools affect decision-making? Without social tools, decisions tend to be made by those who've been around the most, who are invested in a long-term line of action (which may not necessarily be the best one).

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• I love it when a (RSA) plan comes together

  Published: May 30, 2008, 4:55 am

  Tags: Digital Video Animation, Giving Information, World Of Ewan, Rsa

  Over last autumn and winter I was fortunate to work with the Executive Board and about half the employees of the RSA on what new media could bring to them personally and to their organisation. At the same time, Anshuman Rane and his web team were developing a new web service on an open source Content Management System, that would benefit from a

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• Navigating genius: TEDSphere

  Published: June 2, 2008, 6:21 am

  Tags: Giving Information, Glowscotland

  task. Cue TEDSphere for information aesthetic junkies like meself. Beautiful globe interactive stuff, and quite handy to boot. What would you make of something like this to spot the links and connections for your social network or potential Glow friends and FOAFs?

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• 20 Ideas For Local Authorities To Engage With Web 2.0

  Published: June 16, 2008, 5:31 am

  Tags: Business, Communication Tools, Creativity, Giving Information, Leadership Amp Management, Productivity, Weblogs, Wiki

  of Socitm, the Society of Information Technology Management, where we were exploring the impact new media could have in Local Authorities and other public bodies. Most of those present were from the world of corporate IT and, as someone presenting a variety of tools they were likely to be blocking on their home patch, I was a tad nervous about

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• Why would you use words on the screen when they do just fine in your mouth?

  Published: June 30, 2008, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Digital Image, Giving Information, Productivity, Necc08

  oral presentation that we're giving. 6. Teach them to sellIn libraries we see children copy and paste chunks of text, learning nothing about that particular topic. Children need to learn how to craft and sell a message. Communication is the transfer of emotion (another Godin-ism). 7. Colour and font choice mattersFire trucks are becoming

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