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Let’s All Get on the QR Code Bandwagon… Maybe
By now you’ve probably seen these 2D images called QR codes. They are popping up everywhere. Businesses, in an effort to use the latest technology are plastering them on posters, billboards, businesses cards and more. QR (Quick Response) Codes can encode various data elements including a URL or contact information. These codes can than be [...]
The On-demand Generation
We’ve heard of Baby Boomers, GenX, GenY and Millennials. Each provide their set of communication challenges. A realization came to me of what the next generation might be called and some of their challenges. We have a PVR and Netflix and our children love to watch their favorite shows on their own schedule. There is [...]
The Death of Adobe Flash
Today I had an interesting conversation with Hope Litwin about the future of Adobe Flash. She was of the opinion that Flash was going to be obsolete in the next few years (if not sooner). This got me thinking and fueled the conversation. I realized that I haven’t seen that many Flash sites these days. [...]
Weekly Video: Technology Empowers Human Connections
We’ve seen many videos talking about social media. You know the video, with an upbeat backtrack and countless statistics screaming across the video. These are thought provoking videos, but one thing is missing in all the statistics; human connections. Rogers Communications produced a great video that talks about technology and does provide thought provoking statistics, [...]
Social Surfing
The way we consume information online is changing rapidly. If there were web sites that we wanted to share with our friends, we would e-mail the links to them. Any discussions happened after the fact through e-mail threads and were out of context. Jeremiah Owyang talks about the future of the social web being five [...]
Usability Testing With Usabilla
I’ve noticed a shift in the web design world. Maybe the shift isn’t recent, maybe I’m just become aware of it. The increasing importance of involving the user in the design process. User centered design is becoming especially important in higher education. As colleges and universities begin to face tougher times due to reduced budgets, [...]
Weekly Video: GLUE – The Start of Social Colonization
I saw this video posted on Jeremiah Owyang’s blog and thought it was worth sharing. GLUE allows you to share in your web browsing experience with your friends. Jeremiah has talked about different eras of the social web and the Era of Social Colonization starts this year and GLUE helps facilitate this. As a recap, [...]
Another Tech Merger: Oracle To Buy Sun
Image via CrunchBase It was announced on Monday, April 20th that Oracle has offered 7.4 billion dollars to buy Sun Microsystems. The first thing you may be wondering is ‘why would you care about Oracle’s plans to buy Sun?’ If you have a self-hosted instance of WordPress like I do or run an open-source CMS [...]
My Experience Setting Up A Social Network
Image via CrunchBase I’ve been trying to think about what I would talk about in my next post and I decided to share my experience with trying to start an online social network. In the Fall of 2008 I started a community on the Ning network called Canadian HigherEd Online Marketing and Recruiting. I went [...]
Social Media Utility Belt
Image via Wikipedia Just as there are an enormous amount of social networks available, there are just as many, if not more, web tools to keep in your social media utility belt. The social web has empowered us to share, collaborate and create together. I have to admit that I haven’t tried very many of [...]
Where Is The Web Going?
Image by dullhunk via Flickr Most if not all of you have heard of various terms floating around like The Semantic Web or Web 3.0. These terms are used to describe the next phase of the Web. I don’t know how many of you have heard of TED. TED is an annual conference where some [...]
College Given E-Mail Addresses
There has been discussion at our institution about disbanded the practice of giving students e-mail addresses with the college domain. Some of the reasons motivating the discussion stem from the difficulty in maintaining these various accounts as we are a 2 year college, students come and go quite frequently. Also, in all reality, students are [...]
Bookmarking That’s Delicious
My Bookmarking Woes! Bookmarking websites has been a practice as old as browsers themselves. It’s a great way to remember those interesting, useful or fun websites that you frequent. Being online at work and at home, I never know when I am going to come across a website that I want to bookmark for future [...]
Web 2.0 and Beyond
Image by ekai via Flickr I have been intrigued with computers and communications back since the days of computer Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). I remember seeing my first BBS and was so excited that I could communicate with other people through the computer and a phone line. Sharing files, playing games, chatting, and more. And [...]
Google Web Site Optimizer Tool: Another Tool for the Web Developer’s Utility Belt
I came across an article called “Google Web Site Optimizer Tool: I Told You So” on Sitepoint.com that talked about a new tool from Google called the Web Site Optimizer Tool. You will need a Google Gmail account – but I imagine that you have a Gmail account already, if not, what are you waiting [...]