Just back from a quick trip to Mid Sweden University (or Mittuniversitetet). We were at the Östersund campus which is a little further north than the two other campuses, Härnösand and Sundsvall. [googlemaps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=university&hl=en&cd=1&ei=xQiIS8yFG5i5jAefutzSBg&sig2=SBuv3Z6yVpOfRIj2s9Xcmw&sll=63.177038,14.651163&sspn=0.015108,0.03721&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=16486601166023273433&hq=university&hnear=&t=h&ll=63.188134,14.648895&spn=0.102517,0.274658&iwloc=A&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Östersund is described as ‘the number one winter city’ and it was certainly picturesque – covered in snow and fairly chilly…
Category: Work
management, web development, university life, stuff like that
“Come help make the video to demonstrate the ROI of social media in higher ed”
via http://twitter.com/timeshighered/status/9336576439 RT @markgr: #highered peeps – Come help make the video to demonstrate the ROI of social media in higher edhttp://bit.ly/aVYj8m #hesmroi Based on this idea… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmfs3z8esI]
The internet – costing or saving the planet?
This article… Schwarzenegger’s ebook plans are not a greener option California’s plans to drop traditional textbooks in favour of online material will no doubt spare a few trees – but Arnie should be choosing the greenest option by rolling out dedicated e-reader devices at the same time, says Duncan Graham-Rowe via Schwarzenegger’s ebook plans are…
Living in the cloud
Since I got this netbook I’ve been trying to live life more in the cloud. Now that I have Windows 7 RC on it, I think I need to stay there so that I don’t lose too much if/when I need to re-install. First off a few weeks ago I started getting our data backed…
Installing Windows 7 on my Samsung NC10 Netbook
Here are the steps I took. 1. Ask via Twitter whether or not this would be a good idea! Ben was kind enough to suggest that he would willingly let me try first… He was also kind enough to point me at this helpful starting point 2. Step 1: formatting Couldn’t find a USB stick…
The Hannover Principles
One of the things I’d like to consider (pipe dream / pie in the sky time) is how me and my team might consider applying something like The Hannover Principles to our work. (As usual) I’m no expert, but I think the HPs are focussed on buildings and objects. We build web digital applications. Each time we…
More Drupal support
We’re currently using Drupal to build a CMS for the university I work at. It’s great to see it get more and more backing… From an enterprise level, Sett Gottleib celebrates Finally, Drupal Gets Deployment. His post points to Greg Dunlap’s work on a Deploy module. Sett also references the Drush module which can handle filesystem level…
The Groundswell – figures for UK 2008
Just for the record really, but am reading The Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff from Forrester. They accompany the book with a website which includes a profile tool. For this to make sense you need to understand their “Social Technographics®” classifications which describe: Inactives, Spectators, Joiners, Collectors, Critics, and Creators. Their profile tool includes data…
CMS kit = Ikea flat pack
I liked a post on Robert O’Toole’s blog: The Ikea effect – why we should build a flat–pack V[R]LE He’s talking about a V[R]LE which I’m assuming is much like a VLE. But I thought the aspects on how people like to build their own things, especially when it’s made easy, related well to our CMS project. …
Sun's MySQL Enterprise Database Helps University Ensure Reliability of Mission-Critical Systems
It’s 29/4/09, but I’m pre-dating this post so that it appears when the article I’m referencing was published… I was interviewed by Sun/MySQL for some info on how we use MySQL. I (nearly) said: “Sun’s MySQL database is the de facto standard of databases. Our staff knows it, and developers with MySQL skills are very…