Archive for July, 2009

One Way to Promote Your School's Fan Page

A question I get quite a bit from people at my own institution as well as at conferences and webinars I’ve been doing lately is how do you promote your school’s fan page so that you can get followers. It’s a great question, and there are quite a few ways to tell people about your [...]

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Greetings from JISC + London

I’ve arrived in London and am off to give a quick talk at JISC’s “Using the Social Web to Maximise Access to Your Resources” workshop, presented by Brian Kelly. I’ll be giving an overview of how institutions in the US are using tools like Facebook and Twitter among others to reach out and connect with [...]

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5 Things Your Edu Website Can Be Doing in S3 Today

I’ve been getting a great deal of questions lately from people who are interested in how to use the cloud at their institutions but aren’t sure what sort of things they could be doing there. I’ve been thinking about this and here are a few thoughts I’ve had about ways you can integrate Amazon’s S3 [...]

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