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Seesmic for Windows – Installation Issues Solved

11 January 2010

I generally use the Seesmic web app to access Twitter on my Macs, but as I’ve been using my netbook more frequently I was keen to try Seesmic for Windows. Unfortunately it didn’t go as smoothly as I would have liked.
When running the setup file I was faced with an error because the installer [...]

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Free ebook – Live Online Learning

13 October 2009

*Disclaimer – I am a partner in Onlignment.

Over on the Onlignment website, we have just launched a free e-book download, a facilitator’s guide to live online learning. In 55 pages it covers:

Whys and wherefores
Planning your session
Communicating with voice and live video
Communicating using images and text
Sharing resources
Building in interactivity
Building up to the session
Facilitating the session
Following up

The [...]

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Poetry Heroes

8 October 2009

Today in the UK it is National Poetry Day and the subject is heroes and heroines, so I thought I would take the opportunity to post one of my favourite poems, written to honour the pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain.
Fighter Pilot
He was no Galahad, no knight sans peur et sans reproche.
Sans [...]

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Tweet Psych

15 June 2009

Just ran myself through Tweet Psych. Not entirely sure what this says about me, but here are the results;
Cognitive Content

Present tense
Positive emotions
Tentative
Future tense
Upward motion
Insight
Senses
Past tense
Cognitive processes
Space
Occupation & work
Motion

Primordial, Conceptual and Emotional Content

Abstract thought
Social behavior
Constructive behaviors
Concreteness
Glory
Restraint
Anxiety
Visual sensations
Order
Positive affect

Why not give it a try?

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Nothing Important to Communicate?

26 January 2009

Setting up this blog is something that has been on my mind for close to a year. That’s an embarrasing confession for someone who spends a great deal of time telling people that starting a blog is easy. There are several reasons that it’s taken so long to go from idea to reality, not the [...]

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