Google I/O 2012 Notes: Keynote day 1 through an educator’s eyes
Notes from the keynote on day one of Google I/O 2012 written with an educational slant
June 2012
What I’ve starred this month: June 28, 2012
Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month: UK teaching union raises concerns about lecture capture – June 16, 2012 Introduction to Google Apps Script [Video] – The […]
IWMW12 Data Hacks
In this post I highlight some data hacks I came up with during the course of #iwmw12. These include a network diagram of how UN University Twitter accounts follow each other, a search archive of tweets and some timestamped map data
The story data tells us about #CitizenRelay
Originally posted on CitizenRelay Telling stories with data is a growing area for journalism and there is already a strong community around Data Driven Journalism (DDJ). I’m not journalist, by […]
#IWMW12 Data Visualisation Plenary/Workshop Resources
On Tuesday 19th June I’ll be presenting at the Institutional Web Manager Workshop (IWMW) in Edinburgh … twice! Tony Hirst and I are continuing our tour, which started at the […]
#GEUG12 Creative Solutions with Google Products
Today I’m presenting at Google Apps for EDU European User Group meeting (GEUG12) at the University of Portsmouth. I’m doing the session with Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) on Creative Solutions with […]
RSS Feed Social Share Counting Google Spreadsheet
Sheila MacNeill recently shared Some thoughts on web analytics using our work on analytics in which she mentioned a tool I developed which allows us to quickly get social share and page view counts for out blog, category or project feeds. Here’s the basic version of the template I’ve developed that we use.
Making Google Reader Mobile sing using your Gmail inbox for personal productivity to save bookmarks and tweet links
In this post I introduce a little Google Apps Script producivity tool that lets me send tweets and save bookmarks to Delicious and Diigo from Google Reader Mobile
Analytics Reconnoitre – AaaS/DaaS: Analytics as a service, data as a service
For the Analytics Reconnoitre I’ve been trying to get my head around ‘Analytics as a service’ asking myself what new “as-a-service” offerings are emerging. Let start by defining what ‘as-a-service’ […]
Some quick notes on Google+ Hangouts On Air
Hangouts On Air are broadcasted live to Google+ and YouTube so anyone can watch even if they don’t have a G+ account Participants who can join the hangout for On […]