# Linkage: Funding, licensing, managing research data, LTI, Google Analytics cohort analysis and more Some stuff from last night that caught my eye (reflections follow each tweet): > "Jisc ITT: Feasibility Study on digital repository infrastructure solutions for ‘unsupported’ digital assets" > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357194480564187138) There’s also been an interesting series of posts from Brian Kelly around this area ([here](http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/seo-analysis-of-institutional-repositories-whats-the-back-story/) and [here](http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/developing-the-repository-manager-community/)) > "GitHub's Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden Costs" > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357194996450992128) How accurate the numbers are is always the question, but personally speaking there are a couple of instances where no-license has created a headache for me. More annoying is when you do reach out to developers for permission to use their code and get no response (on the plus side great to see both code and tutorials being openly licenced on the Google Developer site ([Apps Script anyway](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/), not sure about others) > "Google for Nonprofits moves beyond the US, launching in the UK starting with England and Wales" > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357195863451381760) I was wondering if this extended to colleges/unis. Question is whilst most have charitable status as they for profit? > "Seven rules of successful research data management" > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357197826377265152) Mrs H. started her PhD this week… > RT [@SocialBro](https://twitter.com/SocialBro): Using SocialBro to manage your event attendees < use with TAGS summary sheet > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357208246450270211) Useful advice from SocialBro. Instead of the Excel sheet used in the tutorial you can use the Summary sheet on TAGS > New blog post: "Variety is the spice of life" - featuring winners of the LTI App Bounty [\#Canvas](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Canvas&src=hash) > > — Instructure Canvas (@instructure) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/instructure/statuses/357207018282553348) Great set of winners! Ones that caught my eye: - [AspirEdu](http://aspiredu.com/): analytics and retention solution that adds an administrative dashboard inside the LMS - [BigBlueButton](http://www.bigbluebutton.org/): open source Web conferencing solution that allows one-click conferencing - [CloudTime](https://github.com/UOC/lti-CloudTime): auto-provisions Amazon EC2 instances and distributes them to students for programming or data mining projects - [QuestionPress](http://www.questionpress.com/): online classroom response system that makes it easy to drop assessments into a course and write grades back to the LMS > RT [@prsarahevans](https://twitter.com/prsarahevans): Which journos/bloggers shared your link? - needs a little work, but smart [@stephbeadell](https://twitter.com/stephbeadell) [@leximills](https://twitter.com/leximills) > > — wilreynolds (@wilreynolds) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/wilreynolds/statuses/357216910548533250) This caught my eye in terms of altmetrics/REF impact > [\#d2lfusion](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23d2lfusion&src=hash) [\#by](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23by&src=hash) Memorial U: saw pitfalls of eP as just capstone (last 2 weeks spent cramming tool); going to start use of ePortfolio earlier. > > — JohnRobertson (@KavuBob) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/KavuBob/statuses/357202290714755073) The perennial problem with portfolios - and I guess assessment design - is it can all get very artificial > Integrating Google Spreadsheet/Apps Script with OpenRefine to update existing spreadsheets > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 16, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357252254794919936) This is why blogging is good. Completely forgot I did this > New in Google Analytics - cohort analysis [\#learninganalytics](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23learninganalytics&src=hash) [\#lasiuk](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23lasiuk&src=hash) via [@beglen](https://twitter.com/beglen) \[cc [@psychemedia](https://twitter.com/psychemedia)\] > > — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) [July 17, 2013](https://twitter.com/mhawksey/statuses/357414539454709760) Cohort analysis! I’m still figuring out how this could be used in an open course setting.