A place for Twitter

I’ve found that I use facebook updates for friends (the confessional not professional) and Twitter has become a place for work connections, though I am following my son on Twitter also… yes he does know.. I’ve found lots of interesting e-learning links and discussions I wouldn’t have known about if it wasn’t for some of [...]

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21/25 library Thing

This is completely new to me – I’m sitting here at home surrounded by books, oh and computer stuff, the last book case I built was floor to ceiling on our first floor landing and is / was full from about 1/2 after the last screw went in, but I didn’t know, don’t know anything [...]

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20/25Things-Google Docs

Well I could just say…been there/done that/doing that….because I have, I am, and here’s why….
Tykes News is a not-for-profit magazine to promote folk and acoustic music in and around West Yorkshire, and, I’m one of a small team who edit and produce it, 900 / 4 times a year. Thats 900 copies not 900 people. [...]

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17/25 more – Facebook Groups & Pages

Just some of the…hang on I’ll just check..58 Facebook Groups I belong to more of them more work related than not and some Pages I’m a fan of – 51 of those at last count

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nearly caught up – 17/25 Facebook

Yep already a facebook user see my FB profile here
I joined up initially realizing it was a good simple quick way to keep in touch with family and friends spread out around the country and beyond. It’s been good to share photographs – well mostly, I don’t think I’ve actually untagged myself yet…nearly, and I’ve [...]

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more 14/25Things – wikis

This time wikis found using Wikia web site. I like this much better..
ones I like include
http://folksongindex.wikia.com/wiki/The_Carter_Family    because of
The CARTER FAMILY at CHRISTMAS~ at home & on the air; the songs, the stories, the family traditions. With Lynda Hardcastle, Helen Hockenhull, Mike Hockenhull, Alan Rose & Nigel Schofield. see http://www.skinnymalinksmusic.co.uk/artists/thesongsofthecar.html

 
- a special concept night at 
Baccapipes Folk [...]

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More 10/25 Tagging

So I’ve spent hours over the last week or so, back with “Thing 10“ – Tagging and Del.icio.us, I just can’t stop. Doing the “25 things @ Huddersfield” has made me look much more closely at the way I use the Internet and all it’s resources, tagging ,categorising,separating,combining… it’s all become a bit of an obsession – Whats [...]

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13/25 – Wikipedia

So in the interest of completeness and in the spirit of 25Things….
here I am looking at Wikipedia
1st a random article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Potato_Chip
It wasn’t the fact it was about food that caught my eye, no really, it was the inset about the lettering on the albam cover – ” The original lettering on the album’s cover [...]

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11/25 – Technorati and Google Blog Search

Already Jan 2009, whops I’m a bit behind already! better make some time to catch up …so here goes item 11 of 15 Things –
Technorati and Google Blog Search
So the 1st thing I did was to save both of these as delicious book marks http://delicious.com/trendhub
and then…searched for “Morris Dancing” something I [...]

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10/25 Tagging

Del.icio.us – I love it!
http://delicious.com/tags/trendhub
I’ve had a link to my Del.icio.us tags on this blog from the beginning and use it/them regually with students, I like the ability to share and see what other people with similar interests have tagged, It’s a very useful tool for me, I find the fact that I can pickup [...]

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