So I finally started an academic blog. Since I’ve been a permanent academic employee at Ravensbourne for around 9 months now, it seemed about time. Academia is still a very exclusive club. Research is still…
Google Minus – Reporting from VIRCOMM 2013
It was highly ironic this week to sit through an entire day's worth of conference presentations at VIRCOMM 2013, an event for online community professionals, and hardly hear Google+ mentioned at all. In fact, the…
Radical Transparency 1
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Image via Wikipedia[/caption] Recently, my Twitter followers were annoyed to see my feed taken over by an electronic device, which was robotically announcing my travel destinations, and occasionally (when I let…
Ravensbourne viral video
I got together with students from the course I run at Ravensbourne to create a viral video to help with promotion. Here's our first product:
Vive La France!
France’s banning of the use of Facebook and Twitter self-promotion by members of the French media has met with some derision in the US. But it’s really not such a crazy strategy. Both in the…