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Steve Balmer - Interview with BBCs Rory Cellan-Jones in the UK

info@deburca.co.uk — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:22:32 GMT

Steve Balmer was doing the rounds in Europe ealier this week and the BBCs Rory Cellan-Jones conducted a short but wide ranging interview with him on the 2nd October.

PLEs and more Scary Web2.0 Software in the Workplace - Yammer!

info@deburca.co.uk — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:39:25 GMT

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) have been around for quite a while in conceptual form but various technology implementations are now starting to offer not only the academic but also the commercial workplace some tangible benefits with simple small steps implementation - but should this scary Web2.0 technology be introduced into the workplace!?

VRM - The Personal Platform; A Free Customer is more Valuable Than a Captive One

info@deburca.co.uk — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:19:00 GMT

VRM can play a pivotal role in the creation of the Personal Platform.

Top 10 Tools Used on a Daily Basis

info@deburca.co.uk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:18:26 GMT

A top 10 list of tools that I use on a regular basis that just make life easier with a computer...

Whuffie: Social Capital and Winning with Online Communities

info@deburca.co.uk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:14:59 GMT

Social Capital is often referred to as the currency of the web but what is this social capital and the whuffie thing...!?

The Interfering iPhone?

info@deburca.co.uk — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The iPhone is a great device but like many smartphones includes a large number of radio transmitters/receivers that may interefere with other devices.

BBC Radio Podcasts for the iPhone

info@deburca.co.uk — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The BBC has many great podcasts from its radio channels available for downloading and transferring to an MP3 player, there is now a beta iPhone page that streams podcasts on demand.

A Week of Podcasts

info@deburca.co.uk — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Podcasts are a great way of keeping up to date with technology news to supplement blogs, tweets etc. These are my favourite daily and weekly technical podcasts.

Social Media in Plain English - social ice cream

info@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Another Plain English video from Common Craft - this video introduces Social Media by the way of a story about ice cream in the fictional town of Scoopville

Shift Happens - Did You Know? 2.0

info@deburca.co.uk — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT

This is a presentation that is intended to be a conversation opener to reflect upon shifts that are happening in to consider the implications for education.