2011 – Page 4 – By @mhawksey

Suggest an article for The GAS: Google Apps Script Scoop

October 11, 2011

For a while I’ve been curating ‘The GAS’ which is a collection of Google Apps Script examples and news pulled together using scoop.it. I started it mainly because I’m a ‘patterns programmer’, that is I have limited formal coding skills so learn and produce things from other people’s examples. Because others getting started with Apps […]

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Google Spreadsheets as a Database – INSERT with Apps Script form POST/GET submit method

October 10, 2011

Update 04/07/2014: I’ve revisited this code and made a number of improvements. Read more in Google Sheets as a Database – INSERT with Apps Script using POST/GET methods (with ajax example) Update: See comment by James to streamline this even more. I was recently rediscovering an old Hirst post on Google Spreadsheets as a Database […]

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Live Twitter data from FOTE #fote11 [Top Tweeters, Sentiment, Hashtag Network Diagram, Conversation Diagram]

October 7, 2011

Not at FOTE11 today (you can follow the live stream) but was interested in what data I could extract from the #fote11 twitter stream and process as the event unfolds. Most of the data here comes from a mashup of my Google Spreadsheet mashup. (This is perhaps putting Google Spreadsheets to the limit in terms […]

Using Google Spreadsheets as a data source to analyse extended Twitter conversations in NodeXL (and Gephi)

October 5, 2011

Having experimented with the Twitter API for a couple of years I’m familiar with a number of the limitations, particularly when it comes to the Twitter Search API. The biggest being the maximum number of tweets (1,500) and timeframe (last 7 days) you can extract in one go. This means that whilst tools like NodeXL’s* […]

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Lost in format: html, rss, pdf, email, epub, mobi, Kindle It ~:-s

October 3, 2011

This morning I’ve managed to confuse myself over which are the best formats and ways to publish this blog. So in this post I review what I already use and show how you can embed ePub, mobi and Kindle links into your blog using the FiveFilters.org Kindle It service.

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What I’ve starred this month: September 28, 2011

September 28, 2011

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month: ‘Badges’ for Lifelong Learning: Reframing the Debate | DMLcentral – September 26, 2011 – #dmlbadges #openbadges by @dajbelshaw Reflective Social Portfolios for Feedback and Peer Mentoring – September 21, 2011 Why Google Plus Hangouts is the Killer App: Docs – September 26, 2011 – I […]

Using the Viralheat Sentiment API and a Google Spreadsheet of conference tweets to find out how that keynote went down

September 28, 2011

Did you tune into into Donald Clark’s “Don’t Lecture Me!” keynote at ALT-C 2010 or were you at Joe Dale’s FOTE10 presentation? These presentations have two things in common, both Donald and Joe posted their reflections of a ‘hostile’ twitter backchannel (see Tweckled at ALT! and Facing the backchannel at FOTE10) and I provided a […]

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Embedding .mp3 audio files into Google Sites

September 27, 2011

I was preparing this for someone else but thought I’d share here. Here’s how to embed a .mp3 audio file in Google Sites. On the page you want to embed audio enter edit mode and move the cursor to where you want the audio player to appear. Then from the Insert menu, at the very […]

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Evernote – IS a personal e-portfolio solution for students!

September 8, 2011

Back in April 2009 I posted Evernote – a personal e-portfolio solution for students?. In the post I highlighted how the features of this young start-up potentially made it a nice solution for a FREE ‘personal’ e-portfolio (that is, removed from the shackles of institutionally bought systems). At the time though I did point out […]