Archive for the ‘Everything digital’ Category

Hmmm, is it worth paying for SlideShare?

It’s almost exactly five years since I started using SlideShare. On May 15th 2007 I uploaded a set of powerpoint slides all about the Couch website I shared at the Govis conference that year. I’ve been a happy, if in infrequent user of the presentation service ever since. Not only have I uploaded and shared [...]

200 short digital stories to peruse

Sadly I missed the livestream of the TechSoup 2012 digital storytelling awards last night. But this morning I woke to find the list of #TSdigs 2012 winners announced. The one-minute digital stories from the winners are mostly pretty slick. They’re like mini TV commercials. Not ads for products but calls for action from pretty big [...]

A suggestion for nzherald.co.nz

I have a suggestion for The New Zealand Herald (and any other New Zealand newspaper for that matter): how about offering readers a Kindle edition of your newspaper. I thought I’d explain why. Yes, the NZ Herald already has an excellent website. Not only is all the content from the paper and more available online, [...]

Counting the impact of email newsletter #1

It didn’t take long to learn how many people opened my first email newsletter. Though much later than planned, I eventually sent out my first issue on 7 November. I really wanted to get issue one out to subscribers so they would get the notice about the Wellington NGO webmaster event before it happened. I’m [...]

Staying on top of the information avalanche

At the end of my workshop I quipped “I hope you haven’t ended up more overloaded than when you began.” The participants in my workshop at the Engage your community conference on Friday smiled warily in reply. Setting out to cover the main bases of how to fine-tune harvesting information online meant we had to [...]

Switching back to Word

For a while now I’ve been living with some glitches in my open source word processing programme. That all changed on Wednesday when frustration drove me to the other side. NeoOffice is a version of the popular OpenOffice designed for Mac OS X. It has integrated dozens of native Mac features and provides most of the [...]

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