Since my post Thinking about alternatives to Hootsuite I’ve been mulling over what other services we could use to manage our social media for Student Development. I don’t mind paying a bit, we just can’t afford (and I object to anyway) paying what Hootsuite are charging. I had thought to put up a blog post asking if [...]
Today Hootsuite announced a freemium plan. I understand the need for a freemium model and Student Development already have a subscription with Flickr, however Hootsuite’s price plan looks like it’s going to be prohibative for us. Hootsuite has been brilliant for us in the following ways: team collaboration – allowing us to have lots of people (currently [...]
I’ve had several noteworthy positive Twitter experiences, including Twitter and maths homework and Twitter fixed my dishwasher. I had another one yesterday. I’d been asked by Registry to help them with a data problem (they’d asked IT Services and for some reason they said ask me). My response was that I didn’t know enough about [...]
I’m going down to the University of Bournemouth on Wednesday to talk to their First Year Experience Special Interest Group about our experience of using Facebook and Twitter to try to facilitate student engagement with student development issues. Here are my slides. You’ll notice an uncanny resemblance to a previous presentation – but I have moved it [...]
Part of my role in Student Development involves overseeing publicity. When I started in the role 18 months ago we were using only traditional forms of media to communicate with students; flyers, posters, emails and our website (all broadcast media that allow little or no two-way communication and simply pushes information to recipients). Since last [...]
After a really useful conversation with Nick and Jeff in the web team yesterday and some useful comments on my The automated feeds are working post (including one from Alexander Limi, the co-founder of Plone) I thought I’d put up another Plone post (my second ever). I’m not a techie, but I have been using [...]
After a really useful conversation with Nick and Jeff in the web team yesterday and some useful comments on my The automated feeds are working post (including one from Alexander Limi, the co-founder of Plone) I thought I’d put up another Plone post (my second ever). I’m not a techie, but I have been using [...]
I’ve just realised that if you edit a news item in Plone that’s already published and then save the changes it acts like a newly published item. How do I know this interesting piece of information, I hear you cry? Well, it’s funny you should ask that… Yesterday I was showing a colleague how to [...]
Newsletter – Issue 19 – Amplified staff development via kwout I just ran the event, it was really JayJay, Alan and Jo who wrote the paper :)
I put up a rather lame post last week called Image suggestions please. It didn’t result in any suggestions but it did prompt me to think about it more and do something about it. So here are the images I came up with. They look a bit corporate but at least they are consistent and [...]
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