Tag: Facebook
Podcast from JISC: Facing up to Facebook
October 10th, 2011 at 09:10
I’ve been listening to a recent Podcast from JISC about Facing up to Facebook At the beginning of the new academic year, colleges and universities will be re-examining their policies – including their students’ use of social media. Nicola Yeeles spoke to John X Kelly and Lynn McHugh from JISC Legal to find out how [...]
Facing up to Facebook – A Guide for FE and HE
August 5th, 2011 at 07:08
The area of social media is one that Universities have been exploring for teaching and learning as well as for marketing and promotion, but it’s been a fast-changing area and that’s not really slowing down. By the time you see what brilliant work someone’s been doing with a particular tool at the ALT-C conference, it’s [...]
Xpert Labs – Facebook and 2 new ways to search
1 November 18th, 2010 at 07:11
New tools We have developed 2 new search methods for people as experimental new ways of searching…. Xcloud – http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/xcloud/ Xcloud is a non-tag cloud. The words are every single word in Xpert – so you can choose how you want to refine your search dynamically. Xtag – http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/xtag/ You might worry that searching for [...]
Facebook the movie
October 7th, 2010 at 11:10
It is somewhat surprising, to me at least, that a movie about Facebook is currently number 1 in the US box office grossing $23 million in it’s first week. The reach of Facebook is without doubt immense, so perhaps there is a huge inbuilt market; but a drama about writing a piece of software!?