Tag Archives: Cultural Change

How did the social media world react to the #RoyalWedding?

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Did you get involved with the Royal Wedding? I saw a lot of people who had avowed that they weren’t going to get involved, vigorously tweeting & Facebooking about the event, and I watched much more of it than I anticipated, and went to a garden party in the afternoon! The social media available was credited with allowing much attention, and the Royal couple themselves appeared to have embraced it, announcing their engagement on Twitter! Continue Reading →

Checking out a talk from a couple of years ago by Gordon Brown (via @sarahbrownuk)

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I missed this TED talk a couple of years ago, but came across it again by checking out Gordon & Sarah Brown’s website, inspiring stuff! Digital Fingerprint Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @MMUBS. Interested in digital Literacy in the third sector. Author of ‘Raising Children in a Digital Age’, regularly checks hashtag #DigitalParenting. https://twitter.com/digitalfprint Like it? Share it…

Can you stop for 2 minutes?

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In a world in which there seems to be no time to stop, and in which computers are often blamed for this, the following app has been created by Alex Tew (the man behind the Million Dollar homepage), which I picked up from Psychologies Magazine: Try it for yourself here. Digital Fingerprint Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @MMUBS. Interested in digital Literacy in the third sector. Author of ‘Raising Children in a Continue Reading →

ARE you in need of "BlackBerry" Botox?

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The latest finding from beauty experts is that squinting for hours at a smartphone causes premature frown lines. It seems e-addiction is now damaging our bodies as well as our minds. We live in an “always-on” culture and that means relying on iPhones and BlackBerries to enable us to communicate and compete. But the Stress Management Society warns that our brains are not wired to cope with the demands of a digital age; people are Continue Reading →

Facebook Obsession? #Infographic

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Find the original infographic at Online Schools, which demonstrates just how much time people are spending on Facebook, and therefore (as if we didn’t already know), makes us realise how seriously we need to take it as a platform for conversations and messages we might be working with! Digital Fingerprint Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing @MMUBS. Interested in digital Literacy in the third sector. Author of ‘Raising Children in a Digital Age’, Continue Reading →

Catching up on #Wikileaks #Cablegate

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Is it justified? Should a newspaper disclose virtually all a nation’s secret diplomatic communication, illegally downloaded by one of its citizens? The reporting in the Guardian of the first of a selection of 250,000 US state department cables marks a recasting of modern diplomacy. Clearly, there is no longer such a thing as a safe electronic archive, whatever computing’s snake-oil salesmen claim. No organisation can treat digitised communication as confidential. An electronic secret is a Continue Reading →

Going PaperLess in Meetings #iPad

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Today, at a meeting that I regularly go to, I decided to go ‘paperless’. The papers for the committee had already been emailed to me (rather than the usual internal post, which can be hard for me to get as I’m only in 2 days a week), and so were accessible via my email online.Some thoughts: I had a choice whether to open them as non-editable from the email or open them in other Apps Continue Reading →

"Letters from the Edge: Keep Calm and Carry On" @jamesclay #jiscel10 #uksnow

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Below is a blog entry written by James Clay for the currently ongoing #JISCEL10 conference, drawing upon a title I suggested for our talk at #PELC10 (Keep Calm and Carry On - my PhD research included this topic). As we are running into another freezing cold snap, the issues we raised at that conference are raised highly again. At the University of Winchester as we look to embed the use of Wimba amongst staff (and Continue Reading →