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Designing for Disability Seminar

2008-12-08T14:54:32Z

The Designing for Disability A recent blog post by Neil Witt on The VC’s New VLE inspired me to provide a new introduction to a talk I gave at the “Designing for Disability” seminar held on Friday 5th December 2008 at the British Museum. I was...

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Pinky and Perky and Swedish Topless Model Caught in Use as Learning Objects

2008-12-04T14:01:12Z

I introduced Pinky and Perky in a recent blog post and I used them when I presented my paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” at the Bridging Worlds 2008 conference. And recently I used the dancing an...

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Realising The Potential of Web 2.0

2008-12-02T17:20:22Z

Earlier this year the JISC launched a debate of Libraries of the Future. UKOLN recently contributed to this debate by sponsoring the Mashed Library event which was facilitated by Owen Stephens, Imperial College. My contribution has been in exp...

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A Year In The Life of IWR’s Information Professional Of The Year

2008-12-01T20:09:11Z

It was last year on 5th December 2007 when I reported that I had been awarded the Information World Review’s Information Professional of the Year. With this year’s winner due to be announced at the Online Information 2008 conference in the next...

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Ssh - Whisper It But Librarians Are Twittering!

2008-11-28T15:09:31Z

An email message sent on 8th October 2008 to the Scotslink JISCMail list announced that “The Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and CILIP in Scotland (CILIPS) have just introduced Twitter to their suite of Web 2.0 services“. When I...

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COPAC Developers Get Blogs

2008-11-26T15:46:35Z

My colleague Paul Walk recently commented on developments to the COPAC services in a post entitled COPAC gets RESTful. Paul linked to a blog post on the COPAC developer’s blog which described how the COPAC service now provides Persistent ident...

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You Talk At Conferences? That Must Be Scary!

2008-11-24T21:50:32Z

My recent talk on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” at the Bridging Worlds 2008 conference held in Singapore on 16-17th October (which was possibly the first Library 2.0 conference in Asia) brought back m...

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Differences Between the WAI Standards Developer and User Perspectives

2008-11-20T15:00:38Z

Back in September I presented a paper on “Web Accessibility 3.0: Learning From The Past, Planning For The Future” at the ADDW08 conference in which I described my criticisms of the WAI approach to Web accessibility and argued the need to explor...

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Joining The iPod Touch Generation

2008-11-19T15:35:13Z

I succumbed! Well, I partly succumbed, buying myself an iPod Touch, rather than an iPhone (which is illustrated, but the user interface for the two devices is similar). But I have to admit that I am impressed. Yes the user interface is cool - ...

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Twitter For Finding Out What They’re Saying About You

2008-11-17T15:49:41Z

The recent UKOLN workshop on “Introduction To Blogs And Social Networks For Heritage Organisations” was based on a half-day blog workshop which has been run for the library sector (on two occassions) and the museums sector at the Museums and th...

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