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@heloukee – Sparks off of the conversation prism to social entrepreneurship

The links through the conversation prism (http://bit.ly/rg26k) to its creator JESS3 (http://jess3.com/) and one of the sites they did (http://www.busboysandpoets.com/) led to "B Corporations" (http://www.bcorporation.net/). This appears to be a nascent US social entrepreneurship standards setting and certifying initiative. The B-rating system attempts to go further than "triple bottom line" accounting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line) and corporate social … Continue reading @heloukee – Sparks off of the conversation prism to social entrepreneurship

The institution is a powerful influence in shaping student behaviours with technologies

Greg Benfield argues that JISC Learner Experience synthesis work shows that the institution is an extremely powerful influence in shaping student behaviours with technologies. Students expect this guidance. Students do not necessarily have sophisticated or critical information handling skills, even with the technologies that they are so proficient at using. They come to university expecting … Continue reading The institution is a powerful influence in shaping student behaviours with technologies

Introduced brookesblogs.net at eL@B today

brookesblogs.net was set up by Phil Whitehead and Jim Hyndman about three years ago at Westminster Institute using the Edublogs WordPress platform.  Meanwhile, Brookes has been running several JISC funded support and synthesis projects.  One of these, Emerge, is using social networking to provide community-based support for a large national R&D programme (the JISC Users … Continue reading Introduced brookesblogs.net at eL@B today

Posterous has closed the camera, phone, Flickr loop for me

I was mildly annoyed (a usual state for me) a year or three ago when Ericsson bundled Blogger in the firmware of their good camera phones. I didn't want to set up a Blogger ID, all I wanted to do was post to Flickr. For a while I tried to use Shozu (http://www.shozu.com/portal/index.do), but its … Continue reading Posterous has closed the camera, phone, Flickr loop for me

Well, you *can* tag posterous posts as you write them

But the tags do not propagate to this WP bog. I have added them, later. It is interesting using email as a blogging environment. I have been using Ecto for several years to post to LiveJournal, WordPress and TypePad blogs or using web interfaces for Elgg (or feeds in). One good thing about Ecto is … Continue reading Well, you *can* tag posterous posts as you write them

Posterous allows you to manage posts to multiple channels via email

I like Posterous (http://posterous.com/). It is extremely easy to set up an account and it does useful things via email. I have posted this to my Brookes Blog and my Posterous blog from my email client. It is also possible to update Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs. See http://posterous.com/autopost. I am still exploring the service, … Continue reading Posterous allows you to manage posts to multiple channels via email

Open and blended histories

Thanks to Stephen Downes, yet again, for pointing out Terry Anderson's excellent piece on Open, distance, e-learning and other name confusion in his always useful Virtual Canuk blog. As Terry noted there has been a lot written on the subject. I was reminded of two pieces of work. Robin Mason and Frank Rennie recently produced … Continue reading Open and blended histories